e-Health

INFORM (International Network for Online Resources and Materials) at Uppsala University, delivers onsite information training in lower- and middle-income countries, teaching information end-users how to get into free, high-quality resources.

The project “ICT in rural healthcare in Tajikistan” has established telemedicine and communication links between two rural healthcare centers and a city hospital in northern Tajikistan. As a result of the projet, fewer patients have been referred to the city hospital for diagnostics and treatment. The referral system betweeen the rural healthcare centers and the hospital has also been improved and now suits the patients needs in a more efficient way. The information flow between the city hospital and the rural centers has improved and as a result the rural healthcare workers have gained more experience and knowledge on e.g. medical treatment.

Presentations from the workshop "e-Health in Low Resource Settings: The Path to Sustainability", organized by Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Inistitutet and the Norwegian Center for Telemedicine with the support from SPIDER, are now available at the SPIDER website.

We welcome you to participate in the web streaming of the workshop "e-health in Low Recourse Settings.

Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institute and Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine/WHO Collaborating Centre for Telemedicine and e-health, with the support from SPIDER, invites you to the workshop "E-health in low resource settings: The path to sustainability" that will be held on March 30-31 2009, in Stockholm Sweden.

Thanks to support from SPIDER initiated in 2006, the Biomedical Engineering Department (MTA) at Karolinska University Hospital has taken a major step to internationalize telemedicine and e-health activities, and to establish collaboration with emerging regions. Based on the financial support obtained from SPIDER for the "ICT in rural healthcare in Tajikistan" called the TeleMedISTAN project, MTA together with ShifoCom Center in Tajikistan have established a telemedicine testbed and communication links between two rural hospitals and a city hospital in northern Tajikistan. The scope was to provide people-centered communication and exchange of second opinion between rural and city doctors, in order to increase rural knowledge capacity building, and to increase the quality of healthcare services to rural patients. Telemedicine testbed environment established in Tajikistan will further allow evaluation and implementation of new healthcare processes and services provided to rural areas.