“Open standards and interoperability are key to mobile health offerings scaling in developing markets, Ericsson’s head of sustainability and corporate responsibility Elaine Weidman told the Financial Times in a recent interview.
“Vertical solutions cannot be scaled because vertical solutions look at one business model and don’t look at consumer convenience and flexibility,” US-based C-SAM’s CEO Sam Pitroda, who is also chair of India’s National Knowledge Commission, told the FT. Pitroda pointed to the financial industry as an example: “We use whatever we feel like – you can’t tell me to make a payment one way,” he says.”
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews, 23 March 2010
