Recommendations for Digitization of Healthcare in LMICs: A Wider Outlook

The last two decades have witnessed an explosion of technological developments, such as cloud computing, imaging, mobile-based consultations and others. These developments in turn have brought forward a series of very promising applications for healthcare, which have enjoyed varying degrees of adoption and diffusion within low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). The major themes that emerged within this book as critical in the success (or not) of digitisation of healthcare in LMICs are the data infrastructure, the regulatory frameworks and the education/digital literacy. Additionally, the way forward regarding digitisation in healthcare is going to follow a distinctly different route to the one experienced in high-income countries, specifically it is anticipated to be: context-driven, information asymmetric, culturally sensitive and locally autonomous.