Telehealth in the Developing World

Richard Wootton, Director, Scottish Centre for Telehealth, UK; Honorary Professor, University of Queensland, Australia; Honorary Professor, University of Aberdeen, UKNivritti G Patil, Professor of Surgery and Assistant Dean (Education & Student Affairs), Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, ChinaRichard E Scott, Associate Professor at the Global e-Health Research and Training Program, Health Innovation and Information Technology Centre (HiiTeC), and Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, CanadaKendall Ho, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director, eHealth Strategy Office, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada

Telehealth in the Developing World presents a comprehensive analysis of telemedicine systems and applications for providing education, medical care and consultations worldwide. Chapters covering current applications will be extraordinarily valuable to programs considering establishing a telemedicine framework to provide outside consultation or to develop in-country expertise through health worker training. This book will serve equally well as a resource for students of public health, public policy, and global medicine as it will for practitioners in the field and for programs developing capacity internationally.Rebecca S. Kightlinger, DOAssistant Professor of Obstetrics and GynaecologyUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine, June 2009

• ContributorsForewordPrefaceSECTION 1: BACKGROUND1. Introduction - Richard Wootton, Kendall Ho, Nivritti G Patil and Richard E ScottSECTION 2: POLICY2. Bridging the digital divide: Linking health and ICT policy - Joan Dzenowagis3. Telemedicine in developing countries: Perspectives from the Philippines - Alvin B Marcelo4. Information technology for primary health care in Brazil - Elaine Tomasi, Luiz A Facchini, Elaine Thumé, Maria FS Maia and Alessander Osorio5. Community-based health workers in developing countries and the role of m-health - Adesina Iluyemi6. Global e-health policy: From concept to strategy - Richard E Scott7. Experiences and lessons learnt from telemedicine projects supported by the IDRC - Laurent Elder and Michael Clarke8. Strategies to promote e-health and telemedicine activities in developing countries - Sisira Edirippulige, Rohana B Marasinghe, Vajira H W Dissanayake, Palitha Abeykoon and Richard WoottonSECTION 3: EDUCATIONAL9. Telemedicine in low-resource settings: Experience with a telemedicine service for HIV/AIDS care - Maria Zolfo, Verena Renggli, Olivier Koole and Lut Lynen10. Medical Missions for Children: A global telemedicine and teaching network - Philip O Ozuah and Marina Reznik11. Telementoring in India: Experience with endocrine surgery - Saroj K Mishra, Puthen V Pradeep and Anjali MishraSECTION 4: CLINICAL12. Teledermatology in developing countries - Steven Kaddu, Carrie Kovarik, Gerald Gabler and H Peter Soyer13. Cross-cultural telemedicine via email: Experience in Cambodia and the USA - Paul Heinzelmann, Rithy Chau, Daniel Liu and Joseph Kvedar14. Telepathology and telecytology in developing countries - Sangeeta Desai15. Internet-based store-and-forward telemedicine for subspecialty consultations in the Pacifi c region - C Becket Mahnke, Charles W Callahan and Donald A Person16. Telehealth support for a global network of Italian hospitals - Gianfranco Costanzo and Paola Monari17. Telemedicine in Nepal - Mohan R Pradhan18. Telemedical support for surgeons in Ecuador - Stephen Cone, Edgar J Rodas and Ronald C Merrell19. A low-cost international e-referral network - Richard Wootton, Pat Swinfen, Roger Swinfen and Peter Brooks20. Telehealth in China: Opportunities and challenges - Jie Chen and Zhiyuan Xia21. Telemedicine in South Africa - Maurice Mars22. Telemedicine in sub-Saharan Africa - Maurice Mars23. Telehealth for mountainous and remote areas of northern Pakistan - Hameed A Khan and Irfan Hayee24. Teleneurology: Past, present and future - Usha K Misra and Jayantee Kalita25. Telepaediatric support for a fi eld hospital in Chechnya - Boris A Kobrinskiy and Vladimir I Petlakh26. Web-based paediatric oncology information and registries: An international perspective - André Nebel de Mello27. E-health in international networks: New opportunities for collaboration - Shariq Khoja and Azra NaseemSECTION 5: THE FUTURE28. The future use of telehealth in the developing world - Richard WoottonIndex