“Indonesia’s focus on building its broadband capabilities and the growing popularity of smartphones can be utilized to bring about a paradigm shift in health care provision,” International Data Corporation said in a statement.
“By linking e-government to e-health, which starts with storing health data on electronic identity cards for each citizen, Indonesia has taken a huge step toward health care digitization,” said Sash Mukherjee, senior market analyst at IDC Health Insights.
IDC is a global provider of market intelligence, advisory services and events for the IT, telecommunication and consumer technology markets.
“Indonesia will benefit from investments in advanced capabilities like central data repository, health information exchange and integrated analytics, right from the beginning,” she said.
IDC also said that while Indonesia has greatly improved its health care system, it was still grappling with problems such as malnutrition and a high maternal mortality rate.
The government, it said, should strive to improve standards in the health care system, to keep patients from traveling overseas to seek care, taking their money with them.
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Quelle/Source: The Jakarta Globe, 18.07.2012
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