21/11/2025
Will AI deepen inequality, or will it improve the health and well-being of all our citizens?
Our new report provides the first regional snapshot of AI readiness across 50 of our 53 Member States.
The findings are sobering:
📌 Only 4 out of 50 countries have a health-specific national AI strategy.
📌Fewer than 1 in 4 provide AI training for health workers.
📌Just 4 out of 50 have liability standards defining responsibility when AI fails.
📌86% (or 43 out of 50) Member States cite legal uncertainty as their top barrier to adoption, followed closely by financial constraints (78%; 39 out of 50).
These numbers tell a clear story: the AI revolution in health is already underway, but readiness, capacity and governance are uneven.
And yet, there are reasons for optimism:
📌64% (32 out of 50) of countries already use AI-assisted diagnostics, particularly in imaging.
📌Nearly all – 98% (49 out of 50) – cite improving patient care as their top priority, and 92% (46 out of 50) see AI as key to reducing the burden on health workers.
Read the Statement by Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe at the High-level Meeting on “AI for Health and Care in Europe: Practical Solutions for a Healthy Future”
Distinguished ministers, colleagues and partners, The world is standing at the edge of a quiet revolution, powered not by steam or silicon, but by data and algorithms. I’d like you all to imagine a world – just 10 years from now – where a mother in a rural village can receive an instant diagno...
