Health ICT towards the millennium development goals

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Health ICT towards the millennium development goals
"The implementation of health ICTs in developing countries particularly Pakistan has been hampered by traditional obstacles like poor infrastructure, lack of resources, and insufficient political commitment and support. This can be appropriately summarized as follows, as the “Four Cs” – connectivity, cost, capacity, and culture. Presently, the problem of improving health-care delivery in developing countries is more about the impartial distribution of available resources to all areas of the health system than about technology. Technologies exist that would help doctors working in isolated rural villages to access to up-to-date medical information and communicate with colleagues, and even to diagnose illnesses and treat patients". 

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