Integrated Digital Financial Service Models for Financial and Healthcare Access
It is often said that health equals wealth, but unfortunately, the converse is also true: wealth can equal health. The ability to pay for healthcare determines not only a household’s financial health but also its well-being. Without adequate financial protection, healthcare is …
Overcoming Barriers to Cloud Adoption in Public Healthcare in Asia Pacific
The COVID-19 pandemic completely catalysed how the healthcare industry uses technology. Healthcare organizations turned to the cloud to quickly adapt to the pandemic’s disruption, driving innovation in telemedicine, digital health, medical research, and clinical care. New technologies that had previously taken years …
Fintech Revolution for Primary Healthcare- Opportunities and Challenges in Asia
Robust primary healthcare forms the cornerstone of achieving universal health coverage and other health-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets. There is significant evidence that primary healthcare (PHC) leads to health system efficiency, health equity, and improved population health outcomes. Despite 40 years …
Fintech for Health
Fintech for Health shares best practices for how digital finance tools can be used by insurers, healthcare providers, and startups to help low-and middle-income communities afford and access healthcare globally. With more than 100 million globally pushed into poverty every year because …
Leveraging Fintech to Expand Digital Health in Indonesia, The Phillipines and Singapore
This report examines the role of digital technologies in finance and health care that together can create a “Fintech for Health” approach. This can enable access to healthcare financing, information, and services, and overall operational efficiencies for health systems. A Fintech for …
Overcoming Barriers to Cloud Adoption in Public Healthcare in Asia Pacific (Korean version)
The COVID-19 pandemic completely catalysed how the healthcare industry uses technology. Healthcare organizations turned to the cloud to quickly adapt to the pandemic’s disruption, driving innovation in telemedicine, digital health, medical research, and clinical care. New technologies that had previously taken years …
Overcoming Barriers to Cloud Adoption in Public Healthcare in Asia Pacific (Abridged version)
The COVID-19 pandemic completely catalysed how the healthcare industry uses technology. Healthcare organizations turned to the cloud to quickly adapt to the pandemic’s disruption, driving innovation in telemedicine, digital health, medical research, and clinical care. New technologies that had previously taken years …
Strengthening Universal Health Coverage in Asia: Opportunities for Innovation in Private Health Insurance
By deliberately shaping and incentivizing new models of private health insurance, countries have a new tool in UHC strategy to bring high quality healthcare to the masses so that people receive the healthcare they need without facing financial hardship. The advances in …
Scaling Digital Health Innovation in Asia
Singapore is an attractive regional hub in Asia for the innovation, test bedding and commercialization of digital health innovations. The island nation boasts a significant number of multinational corporations with their regional headquarters based in Singapore, a thriving startup ecosystem, and robust …
The COVID Commentaries: A Chronicle of a Plague —Volume I-V
Nearly a year and a half from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the world is still struggling to contain this viral threat. Will the 2021 surge in new cases continue throughout the year? What effect will our vaccines have? Will …
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