Sustainable Upscaling: The Role of Digitalization in Providing Health Care and Health Insurance Coverage in Developing Countries

Jens Geissler ()
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Jens Geissler: FOM University of Applied Sciences

A chapter in Digitalization, Digital Transformation and Sustainability in the Global Economy, 2021, pp 53-69 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract How can sustainability in the health sector be achieved in a situation where the poor (rightly) demand access to basic health services, the growing global middle class (rightly) demand the right to spend more of their resources on health services, and people in industrialized countries (rightly) demand continued access to high-quality health care? IT systems are often difficult and expensive to design and implement, but the marginal costs of providing additional services are negligible. This is what makes digital health services so powerful in achieving universal health coverage. Digitalization can improve access to health care services, and it can support health insurances in processing large numbers of claims and payments. Both are essential to upscaling health services especially in developing countries.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77340-3_5

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