Showing posts with label Healthcare IT Market in Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healthcare IT Market in Africa. Show all posts

Friday, January 13, 2017

Africa Telemedicine Industry Analysis: Ken Research

Albeit recent improvements in the country’s health care services; the health of large proportion of Africans is still not at par. The continent is deprived of basic healthcare conditions which could be justified by the basic indicators of health such as high child and maternal mortality rates, low birth weights of the children, and poor sanitation and healthcare access.
These problems are combined with lack of high quality network infrastructure, which also eliminates the possibility of better healthcare opportunities with the help of telemedicine. Most African countries have poor broadband and internet infrastructure which is critical for the roll out of telediagnosis, teleconsultation, teletreatment and telemonitoring through teleclinics. The countries are in urgent need for upgradation of information and communication (ICT) tools to improve the digital environment and enable the feasibility of electronic healthcare. Some countries such as South Africa and Ethiopia have made significant progress in their ICT infrastructure whereas countries such as Burkina Faso and Nigeria have been slow in implementing changes due to lack of political will.
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Government of Kenya launched its first phase of the National Telemedicine Initiative in year 2013, which aims to improve access to better healthcare for economically challenged people and people living in rural regions of the country. The telemedicine program is planned to provide a platform that will be capable to help patients and healthcare providers residing in rural areas to have interaction with healthcare experts at Kenya’s main referral hospital, Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) with the help of videoconferencing.
mHealth can help in providing primary healthcare services to low income medical insurance holders and can assist in curbing the inequality across public and private healthcare services. In 2015, it was recorded that only 14% of the South African population had access to 57% of the total health expenditure of South Africa, which clearly advocates the inequality scenario.
Amongst all the African states, Nigeria has one of the highest numbers of health professionals; however the availability of the midwives and nurses is still low which implicates the lack of primary healthcare delivery. Moreover the health professionals are cluttered in the urban areas in southern part of country mainly in Lagos, providing tertiary health care facilities.
Most of the healthcare services are provided by the government in Ghana and Ghana Health Services (GHS). The complete healthcare scenario has five levels of providers: health posts which are first level primary care for rural areas, health centers and clinics, district hospitals, regional hospitals, and tertiary hospitals.
Key Factors Considered in the Report
  • South Africa Ehealth Market
  • Telemedicine Industry Trends
  • Telehealth industry statistics
  • Healthcare IT Market in Africa
  • E-Health Market Growth Africa
  • Case Study Telemedicine Africa
  • Potential Telemedicine in Africa
  • MHealth Industry Growth in Africa
  • E-health industry ICT Government
  • M-Health Industry Performance Africa
  • Primary Healthcare Services Online Africa
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Ankur Gupta, Head Marketing & Communications
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Current developments in Telemedicine Initiatives in Africa - Success and Failure Case Studies: Ken Research

The report titled “Africa Telemedicine Outlook and Opportunities” provides detailed overview on the e-Health Space in Africa and helps readers to identify the ongoing trends in the industry and anticipated growth in future depending upon changing industry dynamics in coming years. The report is useful for investors, health institutions, health management organizations, startups, and other stakeholders to align their market centric strategies according to ongoing and expected trends in the future.
The Government has been playing supportive in implementing the e-health policies in all the countries across Africa. The same could be advocated from the fact that large number of National e-Health Policies such as RAFT, m4RH and others has been initiated by the government. Rising level of mobile and internet penetration and increasing number of awareness programs run by the government and NGOs is further assisting in improving the healthcare scenario in Africa with the help of telemedicine.
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However, this has not helped much in providing a positive impetus to the growth of eHealth sector in the country. The main reasons for the same are lack of proper infrastructure pertaining to ICT, problem of collating data through several platforms due to lack of uniformity , incomplete health records from the lowest level of health facilities, lack of technical staff for supporting the eHealth initiatives, lack of training centers  dedicated for eHealth, shortage of reliable power supply, lack of proper governance structure  in most of the countries and lack of interoperability of eHealth standards and systems.
Albeit the challenges, the continent had witnessed number of success case studies in the region, for an instance in Uganda, the use of mTrac has been a motivation for growth of e-health space in the country.
Uganda is one of the least developed countries in the world. The country has around 20 pathologists which work in key regional referral hospitals. For improving the healthcare situations in the country, government is continually making efforts towards improvisation of telemedicine. mTrac has been one successful project in telemedicine industry in Uganda which is a scalable solution to the challenge with health service delivery. mTrac would work on any mobile platform, broadening the process of data collection by leveraging SMS to simplify the process of reporting through a series of keyword codes and fields.
One of the innovative aspects of the mTrac platform is its dashboard which can effectively and efficiently collate and analyze all the data and help the district health workers to provide output optimally according to the needs of various stakeholders.
According to an industry veteran “the project had an engagement of national level stakeholders which has improved training and supervision, increased use of data for program monitoring and clarified data sources for indicators. It has also refined procedures for data validation, quality and reporting compliance, technical and steering committee activities, discussion and consensus building on methodologies, data requirements and interpretation, and engagement of telecommunication service providers.”
Key Topics Covered in the Report
Restraints EHealth Ethiopia
South Africa Ehealth Market
Telemedicine Industry Trends
Telehealth industry statistics
Healthcare IT Market in Africa
E-Health Market Growth Africa
Case Study Telemedicine Africa
Potential Telemedicine in Africa
Cameroon Telemedicine Industry
MHealth Industry Growth in Africa
E-health industry ICT Government
Working Model Telemedicine Africa
M-Health Industry Performance Africa
Primary Healthcare Services Online Africa
Government Support Telemedicine Nigeria
For more information about the publication, refer to below link:
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Ken Research
Ankur Gupta, Head Marketing & Communications
Ankur@kenresearch.com
+91-9015378249