Enhancing Rural Healthcare in Emerging Countries through an eHealth Solution

Sudhahar, Saatviga; Vatsalan, Dinusha; Wijethilake, Dulindra; Wickramasinghe, Yvonne; Arunathilake, Shiromi; Chapman, Keith; Seneviratna, Gihan

doi:10.1109/etelemed.2010.11

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“…In the future, digital self-monitoring interventions as a promising eHealth solution may be used to support people not only in rural areas, but also middle- and low-income countries (Blaya et al, 2010; Sudhahar et al, 2010). Additionally, active self-monitoring could be linked with automatic self-monitoring such as wearables (Myin-Germeys et al, 2018) to evolve the solid status of the current self-monitoring technology further.…”

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A narrative synthesis systematic review of digital self-monitoring interventions for middle-aged and older adults

Bartels

Knippenberg

Dassen

et al. 2019

Internet Interventions

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ObjectiveSelf-monitoring is crucial to raise awareness for own behaviors and emotions, and thus facilitate self-management. The composition of self-monitoring within interventions, however, varies and guidelines are currently unavailable. This review aimed to provide a comprehensive overview of technology-based self-monitoring interventions that intend to improve health in middle-aged and older adults (>45 years).MethodsFive online databases were systematically searched and articles were independently screened. A narrative synthesis of 26 studies with 21 unique interventions was conducted. Primary focus lay on the composition of self-monitoring within interventions, including technology used, health-aspects monitored, and type of feedback provided. Secondly, the usability of/adherence to the self-monitoring treatment, intervention effects, and their sustainability were examined.FindingsStudies concentrated on middle-aged adults (mean of 51 years). Mobile technologies seem necessary to ensure flexible self-monitoring in everyday life. Social health aspects were rarely monitored. Mechanisms and the sustainability of intervention effect are understudied.ConclusionDigital self-monitoring technologies hold promise for future trials as they seem suitable to understand and support health-related self-management. Key elements including automatic and personal feedback following the blended care principle were highlighted and may guide study designs. Prospectively, research is especially needed to study sustained self-monitoring to support disease prevention and lasting lifestyle changes.

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A narrative synthesis systematic review of digital self-monitoring interventions for middle-aged and older adults

Bartels

Knippenberg

Dassen

et al. 2019

Internet Interventions

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“…The approach of [89] helped increase the adoption of EHR and ensure a better streamline of the healthcare process between COs and PHCs. In [386], an EHR system was piloted in a rural area in Sri Lanka. It allowed patients to access an eClinic where remote consultations can be performed with specialist doctors located in distant urban hospitals, thus saving patients transportation costs and travel time, while allowing the medical records to be organized and stored in a central database.…”

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“…The healthcare centers in Sri Lanka have ADSL access, even in the rural areas. Hence, the challenge in [386] was in developing the EHR and the eClinic system. In [387], WiMAX was used to provide access to Guangshan County, a rural area in Henan Province in China, mainly for eHealth services.…”

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A Key 6G Challenge and Opportunity—Connecting the Base of the Pyramid: A Survey on Rural Connectivity

2020

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Providing connectivity to around half of the world population living in rural or underprivileged areas is a tremendous challenge, but also a unique opportunity. Access to the internet would provide the population living in these areas a possibility to progress on the educational, health, environment, and business levels. In this paper, a survey of technologies for providing connectivity to rural areas, and that can help address this challenge, is provided. Although access/fronthaul and backhaul techniques are discussed in the paper, it is noted that the major limitation for providing connectivity to rural and underprivileged areas is the cost of backhaul deployment. In addition, energy requirements and cost efficiency of the studied technologies are analyzed. In fact, the challenges faced for deploying an electricity network, as a prerequisite for deploying communication networks, are huge in these areas and they are granted an important share of the discussions in this paper. Furthermore, typical application scenarios in rural areas are discussed, and several country-specific use cases are surveyed. The main

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“…A key requirement in the behavioral category involves the incorporation of Ayurvedic, Allopathic, and other health system data into the record. Benefits inherent in the establishment of digital Ayurvedic records, particularly for developing countries, has been identified [19,20]. Practitioners from allopathic and other traditions may not necessarily practice integrated medicine but desire to have access to a record of interventions performed by other modalities.…”

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A model for the introduction of Ayurvedic and Allopathic electronic health records in Sri Lanka

Stranieri¹,

Sahama²,

Butler-Henderson³

et al. 2016

2016 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS)

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Fully integrated electronic health records (EHR) provide healthcare providers and patients access to records across a health care system and promise efficient and effective provision of health care. However, fully integrated records have proven to be very expensive and difficult to establish. Currently. EHR's have been developed largely to accommodate Western medicine events. These barriers impact on the introduction of EHR's in Sri Lanka, where health budgets are already stretched and Ayurvedic medicine is routinely practiced alongside Allopathic medicine. This article identifies requirements for EHR in the Sri Lankan context and advances a model for the introduction of EHR's that suits that context. The model is justified by drawing on insights and experiences with EHR in Western nations.

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Enhancing Rural Healthcare in Emerging Countries through an eHealth Solution

Cited by 14 publications

References 1 publication

A narrative synthesis systematic review of digital self-monitoring interventions for middle-aged and older adults

A narrative synthesis systematic review of digital self-monitoring interventions for middle-aged and older adults

A Key 6G Challenge and Opportunity—Connecting the Base of the Pyramid: A Survey on Rural Connectivity

A model for the introduction of Ayurvedic and Allopathic electronic health records in Sri Lanka

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