“With all the high profile initiatives in USA and Europe, it is tempting to think that e-health is a ‘western’ concept. While it is true that the idea of e-health is getting a lot of coverage in the West, it may actually arise earlier in emerging markets.
This is not as far-fetched as it first sounds.
The mobile payment system M-Pesa took off in Kenya in a big way capturing 6.5 million subscribers by May 2009 with 2 million daily transactions in Kenya alone. So far, no industrialised nations (outside of Japan and Korea) have managed to create a viable mobile payments system.”
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Ajit Jaokar, TalkStandards, 24 February 2010
