. – Information and Communication Technology can decrease not widen the gap between haves and have-nots said the director for the Eastern Mediterranean region at the World of Health IT conference here last month.
In his keynote address said that if public officials bring home the bacon to make technology more widely available – reducing in cause the ratio of haves to have-nots – the benefits of healthcare IT will be spread more broadly across the world’s population.
“We have to work on this,” he said. “Maybe it is time to declare how essential ICT is to health in the same way WHO declared certain medicines essential.”
That’s an almost revolutionary idea in public health where many have maintained that the costs of new computing could reduce the amount of money spent on relatively inexpensive lifesaving medicines. “This argument is not valid at all,” maintained later pointing out that the prices of vaccines have dropped precipitously the more they were used and the same could be true of technology.
said WHO is coming to terms with the uses of healthcare technology both for its own administration and to improve healthcare outcomes throughout the world. For instance his region was the first WHO department to use ICT to show how it spent its public dollars. “We are transparent. You can see all this on the Internet,” he said “This [example] would be followed by headquarters and by other regions.”
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