Message-ID: <v02130505adafaed308d0@[196.20.30.2]> Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 14:09:29 +0100 From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@LISSE.NA> Subject: Re: Telemedicine To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
At 7:22 PM 2/5/96, Royce Robbins wrote: >Recently there was a thread on the issue of using "The Internet" in Africa
>to provide improved health care in rural areas via telemedicine.
>Eberhard, in his usual abrupt "you don't know squat about what it's REALLY
But do you know what it is really like in Africa? Do you really know how the health services are organized here? What drugs are available at what level. or even what drugs are supposed to be available at what level?
>like in Africa" style, pronounced that such projects don't work, can't
>work, and "aren't even being done in the US". I am appending verbatim, a
I still stand uncorrected (see below).
>memo from the Dean of the College of Medicine, The University of Arizona,
>(Tucson, AZ, USA) announcing the creation of a state-funded Telemedicine
>program, primarily to provide outreach services to rural physicians in and
>around the state of Arizona. Evidently somebody believes this is feasible
>and important!
Is what someone in the capital of Arizona believes really the issue here?
>In addition, an article in the recent Engineering alumni
>newsletter described some of the work that is already underway (I'll post
>if I can find it).
I'd love to see this. I am almost certain that it involves video conferencing techniques, which is not what we were discussing here.
And the outcome of these VC techniques is not as good as expected from what I hear. Send me the article please...
>FYI, Arizona and the adjoining state of New Mexico are very rural, with a
>few densely populated cities but with vast areas of sparse population in
>scattered towns and villages. Together, Arizona and New Mexico are about
>the same size as Botswana.
Yes, and that is as far as the comparison goes.
el
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