Telehealth in the Developing World

BACKGROUND
Introduction
Richard Wootton, Kendall Ho, Nivritti G Patil and Richard E Scott

POLICY
Bridging the digital divide: Linking health and ICT policy
Joan Dzenowagis
Telemedicine in developing countries: Perspectives from the Philippines
Alvin B Marcelo
Information technology for primary health care in Brazil
Elaine Tomasi, Luiz A Facchini, Elaine Thuma Maria FS Maia and Alessander Osorio
Community-based health workers in developing countries and the role of m-health
Adesina Iluyemi
Global e-health policy: From concept to strategy
Richard E Scott
Experiences and lessons learnt from telemedicine projects supported by the IDRC
Laurent Elder and Michael Clarke
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

EDUCATIONAL
Telemedicine in low-resource settings: Experience with a telemedicine service for HIV/AIDS care
Maria Zolfo, Verena Renggli, Olivier Koole and Lut Lynen
Medical Missions for Children: A global telemedicine and teaching network
Philip O Ozuah and Marina Reznik
Telementoring in India: Experience with endocrine surgery
Saroj K Mishra, Puthen V Pradeep and Anjali Mishra

CLINICAL
Teledermatology in developing countries
Steven Kaddu, Carrie Kovarik, Gerald Gabler and H Peter Soyer
Cross-cultural telemedicine via email: Experience in Cambodia and the USA
Paul Heinzelmann, Rithy Chau, Daniel Liu and Joseph Kvedar
Telepathology and telecytology in developing countries
Sangeeta Desai
Internet-based store-and-forward telemedicine for subspecialty consultations in the Pacifi c region
C Becket Mahnke, Charles W Callahan and Donald A Person
Telehealth support for a global network of Italian hospitals
Gianfranco Costanzo and Paola Monari
Telemedicine in Nepal
Mohan R Pradhan
Telemedical support for surgeons in Ecuador
Stephen Cone, Edgar J Rodas and Ronald C Merrell
A low-cost international e-referral network
Richard Wootton, Pat Swinfen, Roger Swinfen and Peter Brooks
Telehealth in China: Opportunities and challenges
Jie Chen and Zhiyuan Xia
Telemedicine in South Africa
Maurice Mars
Telemedicine in sub-Saharan Africa
Maurice Mars
Telehealth for mountainous and remote areas of northern Pakistan
Hameed A Khan and Irfan Hayee
Teleneurology: Past, present and future
Usha K Misra and Jayantee Kalita
Telepaediatric support for a fi eld hospital in Chechnya
Boris A Kobrinskiy and Vladimir I Petlakh
Web-based paediatric oncology information and registries: An international perspective
Andra Nebel de Mello
E-health in international networks: New opportunities for collaboration
Shariq Khoja and Azra Naseem

THE FUTURE
The future use of telehealth in the developing world
Richard Wootton

Biography

Richard Wootton, Director, Scottish Centre for Telehealth, UK; Honorary Professor, University of Queensland, Australia; Honorary Professor, University of Aberdeen, UK

Nivritti G Patil, Professor of Surgery and Assistant Dean (Education & Student Affairs), Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China

Richard 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, Canada

Kendall 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, DO
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
University of Virginia School of Medicine, June 2009