Addressing Global Health Challenges Through Financial Innovation and Health Technologies

Editors

Cong Sui (Editor) and Poshan Yu (Editor)

ISBN: 9798337333410

Published: June, 2026

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: IGI Global Scientific Publishing

Description

Global health systems face challenges, from infectious diseases and rising chronic conditions to inequitable access to care and future pandemics. Tackling these issues requires medical breakthroughs, innovative financial strategies, and cutting-edge health technologies. By leveraging tools like digital health platforms, telemedicine, mobile diagnostics, and financing models, organizations can expand access, improve efficiency, and drive better outcomes. Bridging the gap between finance and healthcare enables more resilient systems that adapt to diverse needs across populations. This intersection of technology and finance may offer solutions to address health disparities and build sustainable, inclusive global health solutions.

Addressing Global Health Challenges Through Financial Innovation and Health Technologies explores the interplay between healthcare technology and financial innovation in the pursuit of solving pressing global health issues. It examines how emerging healthcare technology solutions are being harnessed to improve healthcare access, quality, and efficiency across the globe. This book covers topics such as global business, healthcare delivery, and ethics and bias, and is a useful resource for medical and healthcare professionals, business owners, policymakers, academicians, researchers, and scientists.

Key Features

• Case-study chapters on universal health coverage financing, including India's Ayushman Bharat scheme and its lessons for other low- and middle-income countries.
• Dedicated coverage of mHealth applications for maternal and child health in developing countries, with practical assessment of what has and hasn't worked.
• A chapter tracing the rise of China's biotech industry over the past decade and its contributions to global health financing and innovation models.

Coverage

Accounting and Finance, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Technology, Ethics and Bias, Global Business, Global Health, Government and Law, Health Inequalities, Healthcare Access and Quality, Healthcare Delivery, Healthcare Policy, Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, Medical Technology, Mental Health, Public Health

About the Authors

Cong Sui is a HealthTech innovator and consultant with dual PhDs (Biomaterials, Hefei National Laboratory/USTC; Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham) and an MBA in Global Health (with distinction) from the Global Business School for Health at University College London. He works at the West Midlands Health Tech Innovation Accelerator and is a research fellow at the Healthcare Technologies Institute, University of Birmingham. He has published 12 papers, filed 2 patents, and consulted on national health system projects for the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health.

Poshan (Sam) Yu is a Chinese-Australian professional who teaches at the University of Victoria Program at Soochow University and serves as a visiting researcher at the Australian Studies Centre of Shanghai University, adjunct faculty at George Washington University's master's finance program at Renmin University of China, and EU-Asia research coordinator at the European Business Institute in Luxembourg. He is an editor for the European Academic Journal and Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (SSCI-indexed), and an associate editor for the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research in Social Science.

Table of Contents

1. The Role of Technology in Tackling Global Health Challenges
2. Remote Care, Real Impact: An Overview of the Emergence and Practice of Telehealth
3. Decolonising Global Health: Financial Innovation, Health Technologies, and Equity
4. Perspectives on Digital Health and Financial Inclusion in Africa: Exploring Controversies, Barriers, and Challenges in Achieving Universal Health Coverage by 2030
5. All Lives Matter: A Story of Institutionalized Social Action in Global Health
6. AB-PMJAY and the Path to Universal Health Coverage: Reducing OOPE in India and Lessons for LMICs
7. Taking a Value-Based Approach to Ophthalmology Across the EU
8. mHealth Applications for Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries
9. The Case for Using Blood Biomarker Diagnostics to Detect Alzheimer's Disease (AD) in Saudi Primary Healthcare Centres
10. Addressing Global Health Challenges Through Financial Innovation and Health Technologies: The Rise of China's Biotech Industry in the Past Decade - Impacts and Contributions to Global Health

Why buy this book?

Most global health titles treat financing and technology as separate problems — this volume treats them as the same problem, because in practice they are. Ten chapters move from universal health coverage financing in India, to mHealth for maternal care in developing countries, to the rise of China's biotech sector, giving academic medical libraries a genuinely cross-regional reference rather than a single-country case study. For policymakers and healthcare business leaders, the financial innovation angle — not just the technology — is what makes this useful for budget and investment decisions, not only clinical planning.

Keywords

global health financing, health technology innovation, universal health coverage, telehealth, mHealth, digital health equity, healthcare financial innovation, global health policy

Target Audience

Healthcare professionals, policymakers, academic medical libraries, business owners, academics, researchers

Genre

Generative AI in Healthcare

Q&A

What is the connection between financial innovation and health technology in this book?
The book examines how financing models, from national insurance schemes to mobile health platforms, determine whether promising health technologies actually reach underserved populations.

Does this book cover specific countries or regions?
Yes — chapters cover case studies from India, Africa, the EU, Saudi Arabia, and China, giving a cross-regional view of global health financing and technology adoption.

What is Ayushman Bharat, and why does the book cover it?
It's India's national health insurance scheme; the book assesses its impact on reducing out-of-pocket expenditure and draws lessons for other low- and middle-income countries pursuing universal health coverage.

Who should read this book?
Healthcare professionals, policymakers, academic medical libraries, business leaders, and researchers working on global health financing, digital health, or health equity.

Where can I buy Addressing Global Health Challenges Through Financial Innovation and Health Technologies?
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