TELEHEALTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
Edited by
Richard Wootton Director of the Scottish Centre for Telehealth, Honorary Professor at the
Nivritti G. Patil Professor of Surgery and Assistant Dean (Education and Student Affairs) at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the
Richard E. Scott Associate Professor at the Global e-Health Research and Training Program, Health Innovation and Information Technology Centre, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of
Kendall Ho Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the e-Health Strategy Office in the Faculty of Medicine at the
Royal Society of Medicine Press/IDRC 2009
ISBN 978-1-85315-784-4 - e-ISBN 978-1-55250-396-6 324 pp.
Available online at: http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-136734-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
“ Health care is primarily about people-to-people interactions. It is about understanding, diagnosis, physical contact, communication, and, ultimately, providing care. By bringing people together, telecommunication technologies have the potential to improve both the quality of and access to health care in the remotest areas of the developing world. Telemedicine offers solutions for emergency medical assistance, long-distance consultation, administration and logistics, supervision and quality assurance, and education and training for healthcare professionals and providers.
This book aims to redress the relative lack of published information on successful telehealth solutions in the developing world. It presents real-life stories from Asia, Africa, and
CONTENTS
Foreword — Lord Crisp
Preface
SECTION 1: BACKGROUND
1. Introduction — Richard Wootton,
SECTION 2: POLICY
2. Bridging the digital divide: linking health and ICT policy — Joan Dzenowagis
3. Telehealth in developing countries: perspectives from the
4. Information technology for primary health care in
5. Community-based health workers in developing countries and the role of m-health — Adesina Iluyemi
6. Global e-health policy: from concept to strategy — Richard E. Scott
7. Experiences and lessons learnt from telemedicine projects supported by IDRC — Laurent Elder and Michael Clarke
8. Strategies to promote e-health and telemedicine activities in developing countries — Sisira Edirippulige, Rohana B. Marasinghe, Vajira H.W. Dissanayake, Palitha Abeykoon, and Richard Wootton
SECTION 3: EDUCATIONAL
9. Telemedicine in low-resource settings: experience with a telemedicine service for HIV/AIDS care — Maria Zolfo, Verena Renggli, Olivier Koole, and Lut Lynen
10. Medical missions for children: a global telemedicine and teaching network — Philip O. Ozuah and Marina Reznik
11. Telementoring in
SECTION 4: CLINICAL
12. Teledermatology in developing countries — Steven Kaddu, Carrie Kovarik, Gerald Gabler, and H Peter Soyer
13. Cross-cultural telemedicine via email: experience in
14. Telepathology and telecytology in developing countries — Sangeeta Desai
15. Internet based store-and-forward telemedicine for subspecialty consultations in the Pacific region — C. Becket Mahnke, Charles W. Callahan, and Donald A. Person
16. Telehealth support for a global network of Italian hospitals — Gianfranco Costanzo and Paola Monari
17. Telemedicine in
18. Telemedical support for surgeons in
19. A low-cost international e-referral network — Richard Wootton, Pat Swinfen, Roger Swinfen, and Peter Brooks
20. Telehealth in
21. Telemedicine in
22. Telemedicine in sub-Saharan
23. Telehealth for mountainous and remote areas of northern
24. Teleneurology: past, present and future — Usha K. Misra and Jayantee Kalita
25. Telepaediatric support for a field hospital in
26. Web-based paediatric oncology information and registries: an international perspective — André Nebel de Mello
27. E-health in international networks: new opportunities for collaboration — Shariq Khoja and Azra Naseem
SECTION 5: THE FUTURE
28. The future use of telehealth in the developing world — Richard Wootton
THE EDITORS
Richard Wootton is Director of the Scottish Centre for Telehealth, Honorary Professor at the
Nivritti G. Patil is Professor of Surgery and Assistant Dean (Education and Student Affairs) at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the
Richard E. Scott is Associate Professor at the Global e-Health Research and Training Program, Health Innovation and Information Technology Centre, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary (Canada).
Kendall Ho is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the e-Health Strategy Office in the Faculty of Medicine at the
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