HBR Blog: A Telemedicine Innovation for the Poor That Should Open Eyes
The U.S. government will spend more than $25 billion on health-care-related IT as part of the health care reform bill passed by Congress in March of 2010. The goal is to help make the extraordinarily complicated, fragmented U.S. health care system more interconnected and efficient.
Where should they look for ideas? Poor countries, surprisingly enough. Driven by extreme need, emerging-market countries are inventing new ways to use information technology to improve health care delivery — and they're doing it quickly.
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