Current status and potential of e-health in developing countries: a review

This project report is submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Pharmacy, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of project report.Includes bibliographical references (page 23-26).E-health has tremendous potential to ensure healthcare quality, accessibility and affordability in developing countries. Developing countries gradually adopted the new technologies particularly with regards to the health care services. Telemedicine is a way to provide medical services at community level. Telemedicine also has the potential to greatly improve the quality of health care services. It also develops the accessibility of health care system. As a result, both the quality and accessibility of improved health care systems is available for patients at low cost. This study explores and describes the infrastructure of current health care system of some developing countries. It also discussed about the future potential of Information and communication Technology (ICT). Furthermore, a set of guidelines of future perspective has been provided to aid the implementation of e-health in developing countries.Afrina RahmanB. Pharmac