| Revolutionizing healthcare by improving people’s health and attaining Universal Health Coverage is the great opportunity offered by Digital Healthcare.This is a concept highly emphasized by the World Health Organization,which has been pledging on initiatives for underpinning the development of digital healthcare all over the world,especially in low-income countries,to finally achieve Global Digital Healthcare.It is well established that developing countries are those that primarily suffer from the lack of healthcare services,and it is this deficiency that brings them to benefit mainly from digital healthcare solutions.This study aims to determine China’s role in helping developing countries in Africa and Asia,to effectively follow the digital healthcare path,which is essential for pursuing Global Digital Healthcare.First and foremost,China has been experiencing a national digital healthcare transformation,supported by policies and technological innovations,which is impacting and providing solutions to its healthcare inefficiencies.It is from the national digital healthcare development that China’s potential can stretch out its borders.In this context,digital healthcare is defined as the adoption of information and telecommunication technologies for refining healthcare services,which highly contribute to the achievement of the third SDG.To demonstrate China’s impact on developing countries’ digital healthcare,I have firstly identified the problems that impede the development of eHealth,namely the inaccessibility to ICTs and low broadband,whose resolution can be linked with China’s intervention.I have collected information about China’s initiatives in developing countries that indirectly and directly impact digital healthcare.As a result,China has been increasingly carrying out projects that improve ICTs and connectivity in African and Asian countries and it has been engaging in new projects for directly improving digital healthcare in several low-income countries. |
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