the data are collected by the world health organization who annually and show solid and linear growth over the period the growth of the number of connected institutions has grown an impressive per cent from an original baseline in of connected institutions to at the end of the monitoring of the adoption of ehealth strategies is proposed as another data source an ehealth strategy can be a good indication of a governments view of the importance of ehealth and the role it will play in strengthening the health sector including the building of connectivity the who global observatory for ehealth reports that the number of countries with ehealth strategies is showing a steady rise in countries indicated that they had ehealth strategies and in this number had grown to