%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2012 %T Developmental Impact Analysis of an ICT-Enabled Scalable Healthcare Model in BRICS Economies %A Punit Saurabh %A Bhaskar Bhowmick %A Amrita %A Dhrubes Biswas %K business model innovation %K developmental Impact analysis %K DIA %K health technology %K social entrepreneurship %X This article highlights the need for initiating a healthcare business model in a grassroots, emerging-nation context. This article’s backdrop is a history of chronic anomalies afflicting the healthcare sector in India and similarly placed BRICS nations. In these countries, a significant percentage of populations remain deprived of basic healthcare facilities and emergency services. Community (primary care) services are being offered by public and private stakeholders as a panacea to the problem. Yet, there is an urgent need for specialized (tertiary care) services at all levels. As a response to this challenge, an all-inclusive health-exchange system (HES) model, which utilizes information communication technology (ICT) to provide solutions in rural India, has been developed. The uniqueness of the model lies in its innovative hub-and-spoke architecture and its emphasis on affordability, accessibility, and availability to the masses. This article describes a developmental impact analysis (DIA) that was used to assess the impact of this model. The article contributes to the knowledge base of readers by making them aware of the healthcare challenges emerging nations are facing and ways to mitigate those challenges using entrepreneurial solutions. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 2 %P 25-31 %8 06/2012 %U http://timreview.ca/article/565 %N 6 %1 Vinod Gupta School of Management Punit Saurabh is a senior researcher from the Vinod Gupta School of Management at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His research specialization includes entrepreneurship and innovation technology management. He is also a research partner at Global Venture Lab (GVL). He has played an instrumental role in the successful establishment and functioning of the DSIR-run TePP Outreach Center at IIT-Kharagpur, providing innovation funding support to individual innovators. At the Center, he has overseen the development and commercialization of more than 30 path-breaking innovations and the functioning of several other innovation and entrepreneurship support programs. As a mentor to startup companies, he provides expert advice and active support to several university-based startups. %2 Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship Bhaskar Bhowmick is a faculty member at the Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He is mentoring the dual-degree students in building their career as entrepreneurs. He is also guiding research scholars engaged in studies of business intelligence, business architecture, product development, and social media. His domain of focus is designing an ICT-driven innovation platform in an emerging-country context. He has written papers, cases, book chapters with peers in academia, and presented papers in international conferences. He is presently focusing on building a model of Education-Entrepreneurship-Enterprise-Environment relating to issues specific to emerging countries. %3 Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship Amrita is a Research Scholar in the Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. She also oversees the incubation and entrepreneurship support program functioning under SRIC as a Senior Project Officer. She is actively engaged in the study of business intelligence in healthcare for future generations. Her other important areas of research are social media in healthcare. The setting of her research is focused on emerging nations such as India. She has played an active part in the health project implementation by the Society of Social Entrepreneurs (SSE), acting as an enabler of transformation for societal juncture for solving local problems by local solutions. %4 Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship Dhrubes Biswas is a Professor of Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering, Head of the Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship, Professor-in-Charge of Incubation and Entrepreneurship, and Managing Director of Science and Technology at the Entrepreneurs’ Park at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He directs international university collaborations, technology parks, cross-functional business incubation, the Technology Business Incubator for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Govt. of India). He also coordinates the Technopreneur Promotion Program for Innovation grants (Govt. of India) and the Technology Entrepreneurship Development Program for grassroots entrepreneurs (Govt. of India). He has championed advanced research in “beyond Moore’s” electronic and optical devices in Metamorphic HEMT/ HBT, & SiGe devices at his nationally acclaimed “India Innovation Semiconductor Fab” at IIT in compound semiconductors. He is an internationally recognized expert in radio frequency integrated circuits (RFIC) and in technology ventures in wireless electronics, cellular phone systems, and communication-related RFICs. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/565