[Health] Fwd: [EQ] Telehealth in the Developing World

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Tue Mar 17 12:55:05 EDT 2009


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Date: Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:26 PM
Subject: [EQ] Telehealth in the Developing World
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 *TELEHEALTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD*



Edited by
*Richard Wootton* Director of the Scottish Centre for Telehealth, Honorary
Professor at the University of Queensland (Australia), and Professor at the
University of Aberdeen (UK).
*Nivritti G. Patil* Professor of Surgery and Assistant Dean (Education and
Student Affairs) at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of
Hong Kong.
*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
Calgary (Canada).
*Kendall Ho*  Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the
e-Health Strategy Office in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of
British Columbia (Canada).



*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 Latin America.. ……….”

*CONTENTS *

Foreword — *Lord Crisp*
Preface

*SECTION 1: BACKGROUND
*1. Introduction — *Richard Wootton, Kendall Ho, Nivritti G. Patil, and
Richard E. Scott*

*SECTION 2: POLICY
*2. Bridging the digital divide: linking health and ICT policy — *Joan
Dzenowagis*
3. Telehealth in developing countries: perspectives from the
Philippines — *Alvin
B. Marcelo*
4. Information technology for primary health care in Brazil — *Elaine
Tomasi, Luiz A Facchini, Elaine Thumé, Maria F.S. Maia, and Alessander
Osorio*
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 India: experience with endocrine surgery — *Saroj K
Mishra, Puthen V. Pradeep, and Anjali Mishra*

*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 Cambodia and the US
— *Paul Heinzelmann, Rithy Chau, Daniel Liu, and Joseph Kvedar*
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 Nepal — *Mohan R. Pradhan*
18. Telemedical support for surgeons in Ecuador — *Stephen Cone, Edgar J.
Rodas, and Ronald C. Merrell*
19. A low-cost international e-referral network — *Richard Wootton, Pat
Swinfen, Roger Swinfen, and Peter Brooks **
*20. Telehealth in China: opportunity and challenges — *Jie Chen and Zhiyuan
Xia*
21. Telemedicine in South Africa — *Maurice Mars **
*22. Telemedicine in sub-Saharan Africa — *Maurice Mars*
23. Telehealth for mountainous and remote areas of northern Pakistan — *Hameed
A. Khan and Irfan Hayee*
24. Teleneurology: past, present and future — *Usha K. Misra and Jayantee
Kalita*
25. Telepaediatric support for a field hospital in Chechnya — *Boris A.
Kobrisnkiy and Vladimir I. Petlakh*
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 University of Queensland (Australia), and
Professor at the University of Aberdeen (UK).
*Nivritti G. Patil* is Professor of Surgery and Assistant Dean (Education
and Student Affairs) at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the
University of Hong Kong.
*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 University of
British Columbia (Canada).

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