[kictanet] 2-Day eHealth Workshop closes with a suprise

Wed Mar 28 11:00:45 EAT 2007

HI ALL
  The telemedicine concept started in 1990s and ITU was willing to sponsor trial projects as it did with telecentres.
  It is unfortunate that though we are good in policy making we are poor in implementation.
  In 1998 a local company was to sponsor  atrial in Nairobi but the trial was frustrated at the last minute.
  The Government owns the public health institutions and it should be the first to experiment with the new technologies before the private sector adopts the technologies.
  Let the Government draw policies and guidelines from their working systems.
  I proposed a wide area network to ministry of health in 2004 to connect the referral hospitals but no response was given.
  ICT will ease the management of the health services and procurement of drugs throughout the country.
  The technical personnel should assist the government in rolling out the networks
  The ministry of infornation and communication is doing a commendable job in driving the OFC proposals for the benefit of the consumers.

  Njorohio

Andrew Limo <andrew.limo at yahoo.com> wrote:
    There is always so much expected of the government but i though i know not what is in Govt's coffers nor pretend to speak for it, i think it will be hard to expect government to provide people with infrastructure and connectivity. The best it can do is get enabling policies, remove taxes but above all provide CONTENT-give people a reason to use ICTs as an alternative channel to government services like the recently launched public service job recruitment system.
  Then people like Safaricom will come in and say  the phone can do banking, the phone is the doctors' tool, the phone is your job hunter and so on. 

Michael Joseph <MJoseph at Safaricom.co.ke> wrote:
  I would like to mention that we (Safaricom) will be commencing a trial
of an e-medicine project with the GSMA (GSM Association) later this year
using the mobile terminals as a means to collate, transfer and collect
medical data for use in remote areas. A similar trial is underway in
Rwanda now and I have managed to persuade the GSMA to allow and sponsor
a similar trial here in Kenya.

Regards,

Michael

CEO
Safaricom Limited

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Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:13 AM
To: Michael Joseph
Subject: Re: [kictanet] 2-Day eHealth Workshop closes with a suprise

Hello,
I too had a chance to attend the same workshop .And relate to what Walu
is
saying.I have studied many African countries and I can simply state that
the difference between Kenya and the likes of Rwanda and Namibia is that
Kenya we are GREAT In policy making BUT not as GREAT when it comes to
implementation! Kenya got GREAT plans/policies but challenged when it
comes to fast implementation.

SA ,Namibia Morocco,Egypt, Tunisia and the Rwandas of Africa have their
govt supporting ICT fully, same here our government does , but then why
is
the implementation speed so low. What must we do to expedite
implementing
of these.. WE NEED ACTION ACTION ACTION!!

albest,

Pauline

> Last week on Wed 21st/Thrs 22nd, I had the opportunity to
> attend the above regional (East African) meeting on eHealth
> at the Nairobi Safari Club. Member states (Ke, Ug, Tz, Rw,
> & Burundi) were showcasing their eHealth projects and
> sharing experiences.
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> As usual, Rwanda's experience was way ahead of the pack.
> The chaps are pretty focused and have established eHealth
> Task forces that have been on the ground for over five
> years. The have a comprehensive (Vision, Mission,
> Objective, Activities, etc) eHealth Strategy that is well
> integrated into their National Health Plan (Solved their
> Budget/Funding Wars that way).
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> Amongst some of the acitivities they have implemented was
> to link up their three National Referral Hospitals with
> fiber and are running Telemedicine & Other applications
> such as: Doctor-to-Doctor Consultations, Doctor-to-patient
> consultations(e.g. sharing digitized X-rays), Drug
> Inventory Control & Monitoring, Blood Bank Control &
> Monitoring, Epidemic Surveillance amongst others.
>
> They are currently looking forward to mapping their Health
> Information Systems (HIMS) onto a Geographical Information
> Systems (GIS) in order to extract 'Health-Intelligence'
> from their data. For example, using the two systems, they
> would be able to 'see' why consumption of Malaria drugs is
> higher in some locations as compared to the other -
> probably due to the surrounding swampy conditions. This
> would get their Health managers to intervene by way of
> treating the swampy conditions rather than just increasing
> the stock levels of Malaria drugs for that region. {I think
> that is clever}
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> It always beats me:- How comes we are having to learn from
> Rwanda every now and then and yet we are supposedly the
> 'big brother'?
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