Editorial


Malaria, HIV-AIDS, Diarrohea, basic maternal and infant health related problems abound the world and happen to be killer diseases, threatening the very development prospects for many nations. The poor suffer the most due to lack of adequate healthcare infrastructure or access.

ICT for rural healthcare: The Tele-clinics wayToms K. Thomas

ICT has a lot to offer in bringing equity in service provision through innovative programmes which bring the poor closer to the health professionals and institutions. Tele-clinic of Christian Hospital, Chhatarpur (Bundelkhand, India) is one of the examples where ICT is explored as a means to ensure better access to both health professionals and the rural poor

GIS AND TELEMEDICINE: TOOLS FOR PUBLIC HEALTHCARE
Sanjay P. Sood, Prof. Nupur Prakash, Prof. Victor Mbarika, Rajeev Agrawal, Nidhi Dani

Recent IT innovations worldwide have been so impactful that they have been able to bring about paradigm shifts in almost all realms ranging from education, banking, governance to healthcare.

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E-HEALTH AND THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
Denise Silber

eHealth is a work in progress. Many countries have named a national coordinator or taskforce, or at a minimum assigned the subject to the tasks of the national health ministry. But no national system provides all of the e-Health services at the present time

Moving beyond hospitals: e-prescriptions
Pushwaz Virk, David W. Bates

e-Prescribing is the process of medication prescribing in an outpatient setting, using an ambulatory Computerised Physician Order Entry systems application linked with clinical decision support that can in addition electronically send prescriptions or prescription-related information directly with the pharmacies or pharmacy benefit managers

e.health.net: ICT at government health institutions
Ghan Shyam Bansal, Dr. Ravinder Goel, S.S. Duggal, Anil Aggarwal, Rahul Jain

During the past two decades, computers have revolutionised the way we live. The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are now part of every critical infrastructure, from telecommunication to banking to transportation.