Healthcare is a social problem - we all understand this pretty well and are willing to accept that at one level or another.
When the provision of medical care becomes inferior solely because of a lack of affordable healthcare IT, then, Healthcare IT too becomes as much a social problem as healthcare itself.
IT is the biggest hidden resource for healthcare. IT has the power to deliver the benefits of research and new advances to a global audience. Everyone in healthcare ought to be able to leverage this highly valuable resource and deliver the solutions to those who need it most at their time of need.
Healthcare is not really all about making a profit. Taking care of people is much more than that. It is about creating social value. And IT need not be about profits alone either. Especially when it can improve the living conditions of humans. I don't think you will find a CEO standing who will say it's OK if an infant in a poor country dies because of a lack of availability of healthcare IT.
However, Healthcare-IT today is stuck in the cretaceous period. Cost and resistance to adoption are the biggest obstacles. We can spend weeks arguing and pointing the blame on Insurers, Governments or Corporations. The truth is that while we are busy with all this, someone somewhere is suffering needlessly.
We need to focus on solutions. Things we can do to come out of this deadly situation. Not individually or in groups. We need to leap out of this mess as a society. The solutions should enable all of society to leap ahead, leaving no one behind. Only when we are able to embrace the marginalized and the most disadvantaged amongst us, will we be able to unlock the power of IT to cause a social transformation. Help bring the future to the people, today.
It needs vision, it needs commitment and indomitable will to keep on doing the right thing in the face of unrelenting odds.
Seven years in the making, we consider ourselves as social entrepreneurs, health scientists and engineers wanting to solve this massive problem globally - transform the way we deliver good quality healthcare in the form of sustainable SaaS solutions that are made available worldwide - as long as you have the power to connect to the web.
:- Excerpts of sowsia co-Founder's Note
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