Current developments in Telemedicine Initiatives in Africa - Success and Failure Case Studies: Ken Research

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Current developments in Telemedicine Initiatives
in Africa - Success and Failure Case Studies Ken
Research
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The report titled Africa Telemedicine Outlook
and Opportunities provides detailed overview on
the e-Health Space in Africa and helps readers to
identify the ongoing trends in the industry and
anticipated growth in future depending upon
changing industry dynamics in coming years.
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The report is useful for investors, health
institutions, health management organizations,
startups, and other stakeholders to align their
market centric strategies according to ongoing
and expected trends in the future. The
Government has been playing supportive in
implementing the e-health policies in all the
countries across Africa. The same could be
advocated from the fact that large number of
National e-Health Policies such as RAFT, m4RH and
others has been initiated by the government.
Rising level of mobile and internet penetration
and increasing number of awareness programs run
by the government and NGOs is further assisting
in improving the healthcare scenario in Africa
with the help of telemedicine.
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However, this has not helped much in providing a
positive impetus to the growth of eHealth sector
in the country. The main reasons for the same are
lack of proper infrastructure pertaining to ICT,
problem of collating data through several
platforms due to lack of uniformity , incomplete
health records from the lowest level of health
facilities, lack of technical staff for
supporting the eHealth initiatives, lack of
training centers dedicated for eHealth, shortage
of reliable power supply, lack of proper
governance structure in most of the countries
and lack of interoperability of eHealth standards
and systems. Albeit the challenges, the
continent had witnessed number of success case
studies in the region, for an instance in Uganda,
the use of mTrac has been a motivation for growth
of e-health space in the country.
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Uganda is one of the least developed countries in
the world. The country has around 20 pathologists
which work in key regional referral hospitals.
For improving the healthcare situations in the
country, government is continually making efforts
towards improvisation of telemedicine. mTrac has
been one successful project in telemedicine
industry in Uganda which is a scalable solution
to the challenge with health service delivery.
mTrac would work on any mobile platform,
broadening the process of data collection by
leveraging SMS to simplify the process of
reporting through a series of keyword codes and
fields. One of the innovative aspects of the
mTrac platform is its dashboard which can
effectively and efficiently collate and analyze
all the data and help the district health workers
to provide output optimally according to the
needs of various stakeholders.
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• According to an industry veteran the project had
  an engagement of national level stakeholders
  which has improved training and supervision,
  increased use of data for program monitoring and
  clarified data sources for indicators. It has
  also refined procedures for data validation,
  quality and reporting compliance, technical and
  steering committee activities, discussion and
  consensus building on methodologies, data
  requirements and interpretation, and engagement
  of telecommunication service providers.
• Key Topics Covered in the Report
• Restraints EHealth Ethiopia
• South Africa Ehealth Market
• Telemedicine Industry Trends

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• Telehealth industry statistics
• Healthcare IT Market in Africa
• E-Health Market Growth Africa
• Case Study Telemedicine Africa
• Potential Telemedicine in Africa
• Cameroon Telemedicine Industry
• MHealth Industry Growth in Africa
• E-health industry ICT Government
• Working Model Telemedicine Africa
• M-Health Industry Performance Africa
• Primary Healthcare Services Online Africa
• Government Support Telemedicine Nigeria

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• For more information about the publication, refer
  to below link
• https//www.kenresearch.com/healthcare/general-hea
  lthcare/africa-ehealth-market-research-report/7781
  3-91.html
• Related Reports
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