With the completion of our data validation exercise for the 2024 update to the Scottish Government / COSLA Digital Maturity Assessment, and a fresh 2025 update nearly finalised, the Scottish health and social care sector is now in a unique position – for the first time, organizations completing the assessment can leverage time series data […]

In an online session on March 13th, Henrik Moeller presented recent changes to the staff survey feature. The staff survey feature included as part of the digital maturity assessment platform has been a popular method for participating organisations to reassure themselves of workforce perceptions regarding digitaltransformation.Following user consultations, the DMA team is pleased to launch […]

Advances in Digitisation of Health and Social Care Capabilities A recording of the recent event on the 2024 assessment results. This event took place on 13th February 2025. Henrik Moeller presented analysis of results from the 2024 update to the SG / COSLA Digital Maturity Assessment: Format: The presentation featured a brief slide deck summarising […]

The state of digital maturity across the Scottish healthcare and social care landscape has become less homogenous and more disparate since 2023, and a lower share of the population is served by organisations that lead the field. That said, overall digital maturity within Scottish healthcare and social care has improved at a steady pace since […]

While the assessment continues to observe substantial variances across participating organisations when it comes to the availability of existing digital solutions to their staff, there also remains a substantial difference between what staff from across all areas  of healthcare and social care have reported via our staff survey, and the responses given on behalf of […]

With the 2024 update to the SG/COSLA Digital Maturity Assessment, a steady but positive year-on-year trend is now visible for some sections of the assessment (E.g., Strategic Alignment, Leadership, Remote and Assistive Care and Transfers of Care). Average progress in other areas (E.g., Leadership, Decision Support or Infrastructure) has been less obvious, and in some […]

There are noteworthy improvements to key ‘reach’ digitisation metrics (E.g., digital health records, structured data, medicines administration logs, digital care handovers, adoption of digital channels, use of service user IDs and Wi-Fi availability, amongst others) in Records, Assessments & Plans, Medicines Optimisation and Digital Channels In other core areas of Digital Maturity (E.g., Business and […]

In recent years, a focus on Information Governance observed across most branches of government and public service has been of particular importance to the areas of health and social care (for obvious reasons). This trend has served as a driver for ongoing improvements to policy and processes culminating in Information Governance ranking as the most digitally […]

In Records, Assessments & Plans, while the healthcare sector has made some progress towards fully structured digital records capable of supporting computational use cases like business / clinical intelligence, population health analyses and AI applications, social care organisations have fallen behind in this regard. Driven by digital transformation within a subset of participating organisations, significant […]