Mexico’s health system faces long-standing challenges, including institutional fragmentation, unequal access to services, and persistent gaps in digital infrastructure and connectivity. In this context, digital transformation has emerged as a critical enabler for advancing equitable, people-centred healthcare. Transform Health Mexico was established to respond to this challenge by bringing together government, academia, civil society, and the private sector around a shared digital health agenda.
Transform Health is a global coalition of more than 200 organisations advancing digital health transformation in support of universal health coverage. In Mexico, the coalition was established in 2019 and is represented and coordinated by FUNSALUD. Since then, it has grown into a multi-stakeholder platform comprising 28 partner organisations from across civil society, academia, private sector, youth-led organisations, professional associations, foundations. The coalition began its work with a national landscape analysis that identified key challenges, including system fragmentation, regulatory gaps, limited interoperability, insufficient investment, and low awareness of digital health, which continue to shape its strategic priorities.
A defining feature of Transform Health Mexico has been its commitment to inclusive engagement. THM actively incorporates youth networks and civil society organisations to ensure that digital health policies reflect community needs, promote accountability, and reduce inequalities. At the same time, the coalition collaborates with public sector institutions, including the Health Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, state governments and health authorities, and public institutions such as IMSS and ISSSTE, contributing technical expertise and fostering cross-sector dialogue to strengthen Mexico’s digital health agenda.
From the outset, Transform Health Mexico has positioned itself not as a technology-driven initiative, but as a convening platform that prioritizes people and equity. Its work is grounded in the understanding that digital transformation requires more than tools—it demands governance, shared standards, human capacity, and sustained dialogue among diverse stakeholders.
Advancing a Common Digital Health Vision for Mexico
Transform Health Mexico’s agenda is structured around a set of priorities that directly address the country’s digital health needs. These include 1) strengthening health data governance to ensure safe, private, and equitable use of data; 2) promoting investment in digital infrastructure and connectivity within the health sector; and 3) leveraging innovative technologies to reduce inequalities in access to care.
Equally important is the national coalition’s focus on building digital skills and literacy among health professionals and patients, recognizing that meaningful transformation depends on people’s ability to use and trust digital tools. These efforts are closely linked to the coalition’s work to foster a clear and enabling regulatory framework that accelerates digital health adoption while protecting personal health information.
By convening actors from across sectors, Transform Health Mexico has become a space for technical and policy dialogue, helping align perspectives and priorities around a shared goal: a more resilient, accessible, and efficient health system supported by digital health, artificial intelligence, and technological innovation.
From Dialogue to Collective Action
A key milestone in the consolidation of Transform Health Mexico was the Strategic Digital Health Dialogues held in October 2023. During these sessions, the coalition presented Mexico’s first national assessment of the state of digital health, providing a shared evidence base to identify gaps, challenges, and opportunities across the system.
Building on these dialogues, the coalition has helped advance proposals such as the creation of a National Digital Health Council and the development of a Digital Health Law, aimed at establishing clear rules for the use of health data and ensuring the protection of personal information. These initiatives reflect Transform Health Mexico’s commitment to translating multi-stakeholder dialogue into concrete policy-oriented actions.
In parallel, Transform Health Mexico has contributed technical guidance on digital transformation and interoperability, and convened specialized forums to move digital health principles into practical implementation. These spaces have been particularly valuable in a health system where coordination across institutions remains a central challenge.
Strengthening Capacity for Digital Health Transformation
Recognizing that digital transformation depends as much on human capacity as on technology, Transform Health Mexico convened Mexico’s first National Circle on Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence Education in 2025. This initiative focused on updating health-related curricula and strengthening the skills of current and future health professionals in an increasingly digital environment.
At the same time, the coalition has contributed to discourse around Mexico’s National Health Strategy 2024–2030, which identifies digital transformation as a key pillar for building a more equitable, efficient, and interconnected health system. Throughout this process, Transform Health Mexico has served as a bridge between sectors, contributing technical expertise and a people-centred perspective to national discussions.
A Growing Multistakeholder Movement
The strength of Transform Health Mexico lies in the diversity of its members and its ability to align different sectors around a shared vision. More than a platform for discussion, the coalition functions as a movement that builds consensus, generates evidence, and creates the conditions for digital health to meaningfully reduce gaps and improve quality of care.
As Mexico continues to navigate complex health system challenges, Transform Health Mexico’s experience underscores the value of multistakeholder collaboration in shaping a digital health agenda that is equitable, ethical, and centred on people.
The future of digital health in Mexico will not be defined by technology alone, but by the collective choices we make today. Building a digital ecosystem that is equitable, interoperable, and rights-based requires collaboration across sectors and sustained commitment.
Transform Health Mexico welcomes partners from government, academia, civil society, and the private sector to engage, collaborate, and help shape a digital health system that truly works for everyone.
To join the coalition or explore partnership opportunities, contact: www.transformhealth.mx