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Healthcare information technology for development: improvements in people’s lives through innovations in the uses of technologies

Healthcare as we know it is increasingly unaffordable and incapable of dealing with emerging population dynamics in virtually every country in the world. The global reform agenda of Universal Health Coverage seeks to address this challenge by urging countries to provide “financial risk protection to all in accessing quality and cost-effective health care services.” Improvements in care have resulted in life expectancy increasing dramatically and consequently resulting in higher demands for healthcare services accompanied by a dearth of medical professionals in parts of the world with the highest need. Rapid increases in chronic diseases, e.g. type-2 diabetes and hypertension, further exacerbate the impending crisis. The need for new healthcare thinking is paramount. However, the healthcare ecosystem has a multitude of stakeholders with many (and varied) interests. No single stakeholder, organization or government can unilaterally solve the complex nature of the problem at hand. With the explosive growth of information technology (IT), emerging infrastructures and devices, the provision of healthcare is increasingly taking place supported through the use of these technologies. Healthcare services can now potentially be provided to anyone, anywhere and anytime through these innovations. These services and technologies provide patients, doctors and healthcare organizations immediate access to healthcare information for efficient decision-making as well as better treatment. Since health is development, societal impact is enabled through effective implementation of new innovations aimed at improving healthcare delivery. Unfortunately, little exists in the literature to illustrate how all of this might occur. By nature, healthcare services require behavioral change of both the providers and consumers of care services, and this cannot be mandated. No single stakeholder, organization or government can unilaterally and directly change an individual’s behavior. Motivation can be both intrinsic and extrinsic (Davis, Bagozzi, &Warshaw, 1992; Deci & Ryan, 1980) andhave multiple paths and influences, e.g. as explicated in the Elaboration LikelihoodModel (Petty & Cacioppo, 1986). Complications can easily occur as a result of behavioral complexity manifested by themany influences (and tensions) among healthcare stakeholders (Satish, 1997). To make matters worse, sustained behavior change is required for long-term benefit and