Reaching out: Call to establish ‘e-clinics’

Symposium recommended development of electronic patient management programmes and digital libraries.

HYDERABAD: A two-day symposium on ‘e-medicine’, organised at the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro, suggested the government to increase access to healthcare with the help of ‘tele-medicine’.

They recommended teaching of computer skills to the graduating doctors, development of electronic patient management programmes and digital libraries.

The teaching hospitals should establish e-medicine clinics and the government should provide the required equipment and computers at the taluka and district level hospitals needed to set up e-clinics.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 29^th, 2014.