Neeraj Agarwal

Asian countries cannot replicate the path taken by the Western nations.

as that path is prohibitively expensive and is not always guaranteed to get you the best outcomes.

They need to leapfrog and take an alternative path.

Health care that is less costly and gets you to a better outcome and accomplishes more.

Digital technology today offers exciting possibilities.

Interoperable health records

is one way of addressing this challenge, because they allow continuity of care from a small doctor's clinic to a big hospital.

Many countries have stumbled to implement this.

But India, in this case, has taken a big leap forward and digitized 400 million health records.

Of course, a lot more needs to be done.

The Asian private sector is getting into the mix as well.

My daughter recently interned at a startup which does low-cost portable diagnostics for diseases like diabetes and respiratory infections.

In Asian healthcare, I feel the same kind of energy that propelled fintech to where it is today.

And I find that extremely promising.

Asia's intellectual contributions can be summed up in my mind as a new kind of URL.

We have unit economics rooted in collective good and a leaf frog mindset.

As you may have guessed, consultants love acronyms too.

So what does Asia's rising cultural and intellectual influence mean for the world?

In the short term, it may mean some disruption.

But in the long term, it will mean progress for everyone.