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Govt
Committed To Tele-Health Courtesy
of BruDirect
Pehin Dato Awang
Haji Abdul Aziz spoke at the
opening ceremony of the Western Pacific Conference on Tele-health at the Polo
Club in Jerudong. The minister said the government has spent millions of dollars for
the telecommunication projects. He cited the broadband
network of RAGAM21 to link
hospitals in Kuala Belait, Tutong and Temburong with the
Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Hajah Saleha
(RIPAS) Hospital. He said in the near future, it may be possible for
patients in the three districts to consult specialists at The government supports advance information
technology systems and telecommunication network and services as the backbone
of the nation’s future growth, he said. The conference heard an address from the Director of
Health Informatics and Tele-medics advisor of the World Health Organisation
(WHO) in Dr Salah Mandil spoke about the emerging national e-Health
network, its scope, strategy and current issues. He said Tele-health or e-Health is about the use of
informatics and Tele-medics in the way we use information, telecommunication
and technology in
medical care, prevention, education and training. He said Tele-health is usually broader in scope than
Tele-medicine, confined to the use of the information and communication
networks for individual medical guidance and direction via online real time
consultation at a distance. Another speaker, Dr Richard Hannah, a professor at
the faculty of medicine at the Dr Hannah said most Tele-health faculty members have
little experience with the latest advancements in instructional technology. One of the first steps any institution must consider
is to provide an infrastructure that will educate, involve, support and
reward the frontline teachers, he said. New tools available include e-mails, video
conferencing, mainstream audio and video, interactive wide boarding, and multimedia
objects, he said. The technology must be
used correctly, not just to supplement existing methods, but to develop new
strategies for how, when, what and where students learn, he said.
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