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Page 1Dr. Ghislain Kouematchoua | [email protected]
Investigating need for eHealth education and research in Africa
Ghislain Kouematchoua Tchuitcheu
E-Mail: [email protected]
„Use ICT to enable equity acces to quality care to all“
Page 2Dr. Ghislain Kouematchoua | [email protected]
I. eHealth in Africa1. Health situation and challenges in Africa
2. eHealth projects in Africa – areas covered
3. eHealth projects in Africa - Sustainability
4. Why ehealth education and research in Africa
II. How to enhance eHealth research and education capacity in SSA - Initiative of the Koegni-eHealth
Programme
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Health system in Africa
• Health systems in Africa have to deal with several health problems which increasingly affect the economically active population
• In order to carry out strategic planning, decision-makers need reliable data which are not readily available
• Drastic shortage of professionals is an obstacle to a good healthcare of the general population– In urban, sub-urban and rural areas
• Clinicians, Patient, and other active players need support throughout the care processDevelopment of locally appropriate eHealth-solution for
African countries
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eHealth-Project in SSA
• Current projects cover mostly the following areas: – Electronic medical record, Hospital Information Systems,
Electronic Data Exchange, Telemedicine, and Tele-education
• Main motivation behind these projects– Provide a better work environment to health workers in
rural areas and sub-urban areas
Contribute to the fight against the principal health crisis in this region: HIV/AIDS, Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
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HI-Project in SSA - Sustainability
• Positive factor on hand– Current development in ICT sector
cost-reduction in ICT products, and improvement of computer literacy
• Negative factors– Lack of well trained local stakeholders
– Design, development, and financing of most project to a great extent by international partners
Sustainability of projects mostly depends on foreign resources
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Why HI Education and research in SSA
• Implementation reports have recognized – the necessity to get trained stakeholders or at least to achieve more
computer literacy
• “Computer literacy and knowledge of the role that computing and communications technology can and should play in the health-care system are different”, Shortliffe, 1998 Need of major efforts in the area of HI education
• African physicians/healthcare-providers need assistance from health informatics specialists
• Difficult to sustainably develop a scientific field far from universities, training and research institutes
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Need for HI Program
Need to develop appropriate and well trained local health informaticians capable to– model, develop, and implement appropriate IT strategies,
– as well as choose, evaluate, and manage local IT infrastructure in the health sector of the country
• Furthermore, in our global world– well trained health informaticians will strongly contribute to the
improvement of the economic situation of the country by acting as a pulling factor for ICT outsourcing from other countries
• Good news– Some HI-Programs established in South-Africa, Rwanda, and Burundi
– Cameroon on the way to establish HI-Programs
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Blended learning
Cameroonian disease-related Competence
Networks
Electronic Patient / Health Record
Open Standard Open and free Platform
Telemedicine
Virtual access to experts and second Opinion
System
Decision Support SystemsCapacity building
Training and Continuing Education
Virtual and Collaborative EnvironmentKnowhow Transfer
Achievements of Koegni-eHealth Solution Components
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African countries cannot fully reap the benefits from increased development of Information technology in health care delivery if both infrastructure and adequate research and education structures are not in place.
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HELINA Conference 2011
HELINA Conference 2013 October 7 to 8 in Eldoret Kenya
