Author:Walters, Laticha EM; Scott, RE; Mars, MDate:Jul 2018South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province began synchronous teledermatology in 2003, followed by spontaneous asynchronous (mobile) teledermatology in 2013. No scale-up has been formally planned. This paper establishes design requirements that ...Read more
Author:Walters, Laticha EM; Scott, RE; Mars, MDate:2019Realisation of proven telemedicine scale-up benefits is a key consideration for South Africa, a developing country with a quadruple disease burden, inequitable access to healthcare, and ineffective and inefficient specialist referral pathways. ...Read more
Author:Walters, Laticha EM; Scott, RE; Mars, MDate:Jun 2018The objectives of South Africa's electronic health (eHealth) strategy recognize the value proposition that telemedicine practices hold for rural and urban referrals, but a lack of accepted and formalized scale-up has impeded realization of ...Read more
Author:Walters, Laticha EM; Scott, RE; Mars, MDate:Aug 2018Background: The South African public health sector embarked on a National Telemedicine System implementation program in 1999 and although unsuccessful, the Province of KwaZulu-Natal subsequently implemented teledermatology in 2003, with two ...Read more