確保貧困人口也能享受醫療服務的愿景實現起來有些難度，哪怕美國之類發達國家也一樣。在資源匱乏的低收入國家，這幾乎是不可能完成的任務。但如果有一種數字醫療教育平臺，可以革新醫學教育而且能向最偏遠農村地區提供醫療服務，最終可能挽救3000萬人的生命，是不是很棒？

定下宏偉目標的是2017年TED大獎得主，醫療工作者培訓和管理機構Last Mile Health首席執行官拉杰?潘賈比博士（他也被《財富》雜志評為全球最偉大領袖之一，而且作為特邀嘉賓出席了去年在梵蒂岡召開的《財富》+《時代》全球論壇）。今年4月《財富》雜志率先獨家觀看了潘賈比博士的TED演講，這段視頻于上周二上午向公眾播出。潘賈比博士在演講中描述的前景是社區醫療工作者掌握30種能拯救生命的醫療技能，“到2030年可挽救3000萬人”，技能中包括注射疫苗和監測血糖水平。

非營利機構Last Mile Health已經展示邊遠地區社區工作者如何提供簡便的基本醫療服務，要知道那些地方的人們往往得走上兩天才能找到診所和醫生。在潘賈比博士出生地利比亞，Last Mile Health培訓的1萬名醫療工作者挨家挨戶提供服務，為遏制2014年的艾博拉疫情做出了貢獻。潘賈比博士接受《財富》雜志采訪時指出，從那時起，利比亞政府開始投入更多的資源培訓社區醫療人員。

作為TED百萬美元大獎得主，潘賈比博士還為世界許了個愿：“幫助我們通過全球性培訓、聯絡和授權平臺Community Health Academy，建立有史以來規模最大的社區醫療工作者隊伍吧。”

Community Health Academy將成為數字樞紐，也可用來擴大社區醫療工作者培訓規模。潘賈比博士介紹說，數字化的好處是希望接受培訓的當地人就不必像以前一樣要劃著獨木舟趕過去。潘賈比博士把平臺定義為數字教育和社區醫療工作革新的結合體，可以幫助印度和非洲其他國家等地提高公眾健康水平，而且通過降低基本醫療資質認證的門檻，創造大量優質體面的工作崗位。

但潘賈比博士也承認，要成功搭建這一體系，政府間加強合作以及民間技術投資必不可少。至關重要的是確保移動通信和網絡連接，向有需要的人們提供培訓。不過，就像他所說，技術不僅可以改善公眾健康和醫學教育，而且能在長期受忽視的國家培育巨大的醫療設備和數字醫療app市場。（財富中文網）

譯者：Charlie

審校：夏林

Making sure the poor have access to health care is a difficult prospect even in advanced nations like the U.S. In low-income countries with few resources, it can be a near impossible feat. But what if a digital health education platform could revolutionize the way medicine is taught and delivered in the most rural, isolated settings—and wind up saving 30 million lives in the process?

That's the ambitious goal set out by 2017 TED Prize winner and Last Mile Health CEO Dr. Raj Panjabi (who is also on Fortune's list of World's Greatest Leaders and was one of the featured participants in the FORTUNE + TIME Global Forum at the Vatican last year). Fortune got an exclusive first look at Panjabi's TED Talk from April, which was released to the public this morning, and where he laid out the promise of community health workers to "save the lives of 30 million people by 2030" by learning 30 life-saving medical skills, such as how to administer vaccines and monitor blood sugar.

Panjabi's nonprofit, Last Mile Health, has already demonstrated how these community workers can change the face of rural health by giving people easily-accessible primary care in regions where you may have to trek for two days to find a clinic or doctor. The group trained 10,000 workers who went door to door in Panjabi's birth country of Liberia to help stem the spread of the Ebola virus during the 2014 outbreak. The Liberian government has been pouring more resources into training these community health professionals since then, Panjabi noted in an interview with Fortune.

As a $1 million TED Prize recipient, Panjabi got to make a wish for the world: "Help us recruit the largest army of community health workers the world has ever known, by creating the Community Health Academy, a global platform to train, connect and empower," he said during his TED Talk.

This Community Health Academy would be a digital hub that could be used to scale community health worker training so that interested locals wouldn't have to journey by canoe just to get to a training center, as one participant described by Panjabi had to. It would sit at the nexus of the digital education and community health worker revolutions, as Panjabi puts it, and allow nations like India and other African countries to bolster public health while also creating a massive number of prestigious jobs by putting basic medical accreditation within everyday people's reach.

But Panjabi acknowledges that government cooperation and private sector technological investments will be necessary to make such a system possible. Ensuring cellular and Internet connectivity so that workers can receive their training will be critical. However, as Panjabi notes, just as technology is crucial to improving public health and medical education, it can also create big new markets for medical devices and digital health apps in countries that have long been ignored.