1Reply to Post#1I entirely agree with your opinion on the role of diffusion innovation in healthcare. One thingthat stood out to me is that diffusion innovation will give patients a chance to access betterquality healthcare and patient safety, thus supporting the need for its adoption in healthcare. Inrelation to this point, a report released by International Diabetes Federation in 2015 estimatedthat about 400 million people have diabetes, and the number is expected to rise to 600 million by2025 (Atlas, 2015). At the same time, almost half the world’s population with diabetes has notbeen diagnosed (Lien & Jiang, 2017). Although interventions, such as lifestyle changes andscreening at the asymptomatic stage, are effective preventive strategies for reducing the risk fordiabetes and complications, the prevalence and incidence rates of diabetes, especially amongminority population, are increasing at an exponential rate, suggesting that traditional diabetes-reducing intervention are less effective (De-Civita & Dasgupta, 2017). The diffusion ofinnovation theory can overcome this problem by proving a better model that can be helpful in the
