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HOSPITAL AUTHORITY CONVENTION 2016 IHF Forum

IHF2.1 eHealth and Healthcare 10:45 Room 423 & Room 424

eTechnologies for French Hospitals: Stories, Mirages and Realities
Lussiez C
Arpajon Hospital, France

This presentation will focus on the ehealth market in France, and the roles that French hospitals are playing to support new
initiatives on patients services for returning home: outpatient management, incubation of innovative projects in neurology and
cardiology, monitoring devices for the elderly and use of personalised patients follow-up with apps.

The french experience in electronic health record will be discussed, as its use and challenges are still needed to be overcome
in order to build an efficient strategy of implementation, a standardised and stable environment that helps support innovation
in health.

This presentation will also discuss successes and failures in change management, and the importance of real incentives for
clinicians, in the French context.

IHF2.2 eHealth and Healthcare 10:45 Room 423 & Room 424

Wednesday, 4 May eHealth and Healthcare in Nigeria
Balogun AOB
Lagos State Health Service Commission, Nigeria

The eHealth project started as an Interactive Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) on the 5 January 2009 in
Lagos states of Nigeria. It involved 25 secondary and about 60 primary healthcare facilities and a teaching hospital in phases.

The software is a broad-based modular solution with 14 modules, i.e. records, consultation, nursing, pharmacy, radiology,
physiotherapy, dental services, human nutrition, mortuary services, facility stock, billing system, emergency services and
community health. Only five modules are being utilised as at today, i.e. electronic health records, consultation, nursing,
pharmacy, and physiotherapy. These five modules ensure fast access to registered patients’ complete and reliable medical
history, penetration of rural communities and distant patients for early diagnosis and management. This results in reduced
morbidity, mortality and cost through GSM phone adaptation. With a population of about 170 million people, we now have
148,427,043 active lines. This is our biggest re-engineering impact.

We are yet to achieve the standards of ehealth (Telemedicine) in advanced economies. Our challenges include low literacy,
cultural barriers, poor runding (worsened by leakages), poor system availability and reliability, Non-web based system
solution, hardware, software and power failures; out-dated and non computerised hospital equipment, privacy protection
legislation etc.

In order to square up to these challenges, the Lagos state government is investing heavily on e-governance (tagged Citizen
Relationship Management) and captures all Ministries, Department And Agencies (MDAs). Challenges like environmental
pollution, vehicular gridlock, febrile illness, crops, natural disasters etc. go electronically to the appropriate government
agency. A web-based solution that uses smart devices with high processing ability and user-friendliness would soon be
launched as designed by one of the world’s software giants. Telemedicine (ehealth) is part of this programme and we shall
certainly benefit from it.

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