Digital-payment systems for health care

Investing in digitalisation is crucial to realising a future where a woman with diabetes can treat her condition.

The year is 2025. A woman with diabetes living in a rural area, where there is a shortage of health-care workers, must manage her condition. To whom or what does she turn? Her smartphone. In just two years, the delivery of health care—and many other services—could look very different than it does today.