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Developing Nations’ eHealth and Telemedicine: Lessons Learned, Especially for Africa

Authors:
Sinclair Wynchank
Jill Fortuin

Keywords: telemedicine; eHealth; developing country

Abstract:
Telemedicine is being steadily introduced into African and other developing countries. The associated problems encountered often differ markedly from those in developed countries and merit study to facilitate application in all emerging nations. An overview and analysis of lessons learned from such pilot and other telemedicine projects is given in this communication and the consequent application to future programmes will be outlined. From this survey telemedicine and eHealth projects are deemed appropriate for developing nations, if allowance is made for their special conditions in the projects’ strategic planning.

Pages: 49 to 54

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: January 30, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-179-3

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from January 30, 2012 to February 4, 2012