Cyber Times International Journal of Technology & Management

The healthcare sector is a central part of our society, often in focus and often questioned. The sector is difficult to govern and conservative whilst rapid technical development challenges the ability of organizations to adapt. To a great extent, the organization of the healthcare sector is anachronistic and potential improvements spread slowly if at all. Understanding the elements of organizing, managing and governing, have central implications for developing tomorrow’s healthcare systems and the focus is further on underlying mechanisms and positions.

The requirement for collaboration across stakeholders including support of regulators, policy makers, decision makers and health system leaders is clear. There is a need for private sector actors to engage these players to demonstrate the health impact and not just the financial impact. Innovators face challenges when scaling, transferring and replicating private sector health innovations – creating dialogue and a mutual ground is essential.

Within developing countries, access to basic healthcare services is seen to be extremely limited and many simply lack access to even the most basic services; the social impact on life expectancy is large with high mortality rates due to diseases where preventative measures and treatment exists. Within emerging economies growth in healthcare is not keeping up with economic and demographic growth, leading to vast unmet needs where health care is only reaching a sub-set of the population.

There is an opportunity to make a step-change impact on healthcare delivery around the world by looking to examples where a step-change impact, albeit usually in small pockets, has been achieved. There are examples, in resource-constrained settings, where innovative healthcare entrepreneurs are developing creative approaches to care delivery that improves access to quality care at affordable costs.