Telemedicine options to address identified health needs in Botswana.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Global efforts to implement national ehealth strategies have occurred, yet specific telemedicine implementations have fallen behind. A weakness inherent within many, perhaps most, national ehealth strategies, including Botswana's - is a lack of telemedicine focus. This is despite its potential to address many current healthcare system needs. The development of a telemedicine-specific strategy, to complement the existing ehealth strategy, has been proposed. This paper reports on an emulated process to determine prioritised health needs, identify broad solutions, consider ehealth and then telemedicine solutions, and prioritise these as insight for telemedicine-specific strategy development.

Methods

The eHealth Strategy Development Framework (eHSDF) was adopted and st

SUBMITTER: Ncube B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9158401 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature