A group of private health professionals under the aegis of National e-health working Group said tele-health has a huge future in Nigeria with ready telephone users of about 67 million. Some of the challenges to telemedicine as noted at the conference included lack of policy, lack of public funding, licensing provider, reimbursement, fear of malpractice, high bandwidth telecommunications cost and inadequate power supply.
The group is proposing a national framework on health policy that will cut healthcare cost by more than half.
The group is pushing for such legislation that will promote e-health solutions for individuals, families and high disease prone communities. “e- Health has the capacity to increase accessibility of hard to reach population to quality healthcare, improved capacity building for health care workforce, improved efficiency and utilization of scarce resource” the group said in a communiqués.
The group says tele-health has a huge future in Nigeria with ready telephone users of about 67million. Some of the challenges to telemedicine as noted at the conference included lack of policy, lack of public funding, licensing provider, reimbursement, fear of malpractice, high bandwidth telecommunications cost and inadequate power supply.
“We recommended that e-Health should be integrated into the curriculum of all health training institutions in the country and that government should harmonize the various existing e-Health, telemedicine, tele-health desk officers in government ministries, and agencies,” the group said.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Victor Emeruwa
Quelle/Source: AfricaNews , 08.10.2009
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