Using telemedicine to improve the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular pathologies
Main beneficiary country:Côte d’Ivoire
Société Ivoirienne de Biosciences et d'Informatique Médicale (SIBIM)
The objectives of SIBIM are to: • Offer the various entities in the eHealth field in Côte d’Ivoire a platform for information, work, communication and international cooperation. • Help promote and develop information technology in healthcare, biosciences and public health. • Support implementation of micro-projects that tangibly demonstrate the advantages that ICT in the healthcare realm. • Support distance learning for health and bioscience professionals, knowledge sharing, promotion of best practices in technology and the code of ethics in health. • Collaborate with the field’s institutions, groups, associations, orders and professional unions having synergistic objectives.
Sector: Organizational: Communities, public authorities, NGOs, associations, foundations, etc.
Country of origin: Côte d’Ivoire
Healthcare themes targeted
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Problem to be solved: the geographic and economic accessibility of ECG examinations for Ivorian populations.
The proposed solution helps reduce examination costs, eliminates secondary charges and improves the technical platform.
Equip healthcare centres with cardiology-specific “medico-net kits” (KMN) that make it possible to send electrocardiograms (ECG) for analysis by a group of cardiology experts at the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Diseases of the Bouaké Teaching Hospital.
Telemedicine (remote diagnosis and consultations)
1615 Number of beneficiaries since launch
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auto-evaluated or evaluated by a related organization
Organizational: Communities, public authorities, NGOs, associations, foundations, etc.
Organizational: Communities, public authorities, NGOs, associations, foundations, etc.
Industrial: Startups, enterprises, etc.
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