What Is the Evolution of Telemedicine and e-Health in North Africa? A Systematic Review

Abstract

e-Health is a fairly recent paradigm that leads to a health system new vision, for its improvement in cost reduction terms, decrease of inaccuracies and information quality [3,4]. The main objective of telemedicine [5,6] and its applications is to improve the availability of various medical and health care services despite geographical and economic barriers such as: control of home health [7] guaranteeing that elderly patients can lead an independent life [8] and reducing its direct and indirect costs. In developed countries-especially in European countries, such as Germany, France, United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden and othersthese information systems are remarkably solid in the medical field, hence most of the hospitals are electronically linked [9].