Strategies to promote e-health and telemedicine activities in developing countries

Abstract

Logic suggests that employing information and communication technology (ICT) to deliver health care at distance (i.e. telehealth or e-health) would be useful to address at least some of the problems in developing countries. There is a growing body of literature to attest to this argument. In the early 1990s, there was a general expectation that e-health would solve the main problems in health care in developing countries. However, the progress actually made with e-health in developing countries has been rather limited to date. It is also true that the use of e-health in industrialized countries is limited.