Digital transformation in healthcare is rarely about a single “eureka” moment. Instead, it is asteady, deliberate march toward better infrastructure, stronger leadership, and smarterworkflows. Back in 2019, the Scottish Government asked statutory health and social care providers tocomplete their first Digital Maturity Assessment (DMA). The goal? To build a collectiveunderstanding of our digital capabilities and […]

The 2025 assessment data highlights that true digital integration of care across organisational boundaries remains a significant challenge. Within the Readiness theme, cross-organisational leadership has visibly strengthened: oversight of digital projects by representative groups from all concerned organisations is approaching a score of 90 out of 100. However, this positive momentum is not universally translating […]

The 2025 staff survey provides new insights into how the health and social care workforce engages with digital systems and their attitudes towards these tools. Workforce engagement varies considerably by solution type. General administrative and foundational tools — including communication solutions, staff scheduling systems, generic productivity software, and overarching Electronic Patient and Service User Records […]

In anticipation of the full implementation of Scotland’s new subnational planning structure, which divides healthcare organisations into Scotland East and Scotland West, the 2025 assessment data has been mapped to the proposed subnational groupings. The findings reveal a clear, consistent, and significant disparity between the two regions across every single measured domain of digital health […]

While there is still a complicated mixture of national and departmental systems in place, the 2025 assessment data shows that Scotland is continuing to move away from fragmented legacy approaches. A steady migration away from locally developed solutions is visible across multiple system types, particularly within Patient Administration Systems and Care Planning, and the latest […]

Analysis of the 2025 data demonstrates that, while specific readiness and infrastructural components related to Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Model technology are emerging strongly, the functional deployment of these capabilities is not yet ubiquitous across Scottish health and social care. Because AI has the potential to make operations significantly more efficient across many use […]

Making health and social care services accessible via digital channels wherever appropriate is a key national objective. The data for this section had shown promising progression: 15 percent of service users were engaging with digital channels in 2023, and this figure more than doubled in the 2024 data collection. This progression has stalled and, in […]

The latest 2025 assessment data, evaluating the proportion of standard medications prescribed digitally, depicts a highly dynamic and shifting situation across different care settings. Acute care services have demonstrated a continuous, strong upward trajectory over the past three assessment cycles, now impressively exceeding a score of 80 out of 100. More strikingly, Community Care has […]

Capturing data in structured formats is essential for supporting advanced computational use cases, including business and clinical intelligence, population health analyses, and the future integration of Artificial Intelligence applications. The latest 2025 assessment data demonstrates an encouraging and continuous shift towards these highly valuable structured formats. When comparing against the 2023 and 2024 baselines, the […]

The Clinical Safety section saw the greatest average increase in achievement in this assessment round, likely reflecting clinical safety as an active priority given its critical importance to effective digital transformation. The 2025 update shows a rapid pace of change, with positive progress visible across every measured indicator when compared to the 2024 baseline. Most […]