Improving Access to Care in Rural Africa Through the Use of Telemedicine: Using a mHealth System as a Case Study

摘要

1. Introduction: Access to care in developing countries is limited. With increasing availability of mobile internet access, mHealth systems have the potential to help eleviate this. 2. Method: To investigate if telemedicine can improve access to care in rural Africa, a mixed-methods field study and feasibility analysis with a mobile phone-based telemedical system for diabetes patients was conducted at Mbingo Baptist Hospital in Cameroon.