12 eHealth pilot projects running in SL – HISSL President

There are presently 12 eHealth pilot projects running in Sri Lanka, according to Prof. Vajira Dissanayake, President of the Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka (read his column on one such programme, the eIMMR initiative, adjoining this article). Following these successful pilot programmes, many of these eHealth initiatives could go on to change the face of Sri Lanka’s national health service, if implemented, while others are likely to positively impact the day-to-day quality of care at small and medium hospitals island-wide.

Further, he outlined that, broadly, these programmes include the following: systems built around patients, such as patient records; public health, where data is gathered for different types of indicators such as immunisations and maternal and child health records; information collected on various types of control programmes, like STDs, TB, Dengue and Malaria, TB, cancer prevention, etc.;
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