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 […]

The degree of implementation of digital practices across Scotland does not always match the degree of digitisation of the processes concerned. In several areas, the reach of digital practices now noticeably exceeds overall section scores. Within Records, Assessments and Plans, Medicines Optimisation, and Digital Channels, core digital practices have achieved a strong degree of proliferation […]

Looking ahead to the solutions expected to go live within the next twelve months, the updated 2025 assessment data reveals a notable shift in imminent deployment priorities across the national landscape. This development is in part expected: as organisations go live with ongoing deployments in Care Planning and Documentation, Case Management Systems, and ePrescribing, the […]

Analysis of the 2025 assessment data shows a complicated picture of the recent progress in digital maturity. Comparing aggregate scores by assessment section between 2024 and 2025 demonstrates that advancement is inconsistent across operation and management domains. Progress has been achieved in certain areas of critical importance. Most notably, there has been a distinct increase […]

Scotland is one of only a handful of countries tracking digital maturity in health and social care year on year; and with four consecutive assessments now complete, the picture that emerges is richer and more revealing than ever. Explore Scotland’s unique digital maturity time series and find out what is working, where there is room […]