From David Adenuga, Bauchi
The Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH), Bauchi has launched an electronic platform for patients, doctors and management to reduce bottlenecks in healthcare delivery.
ATBUTH Chief Medical Director, Dr. Yusuf Jibrin at the Official launching of the Platform yesterday, said the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) selected the hospital along with five other health institutions across the six geopolitical zones to benefit from the Smart Clinic Telemedicine suite (e-Health solutions).
He said it is an e-mobile and web solution that links a patient-based mobile health application with a hospital or doctor-based information management system.
“It will effectively help people access health services remotely irrespective of their location at any given time. This is part of the commission’s mandate to encourage research and development efforts by all communications industry practitioners,” the CMD said.
Jibrin said the Federal Ministry of Health has emphasised the need for the adoption of e-health in all federal teaching hospitals, federal medical centres, specialist hospitals across the nation.
Also, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, Mahmuda Mamman said the need for the inclusion of technologies in health has many advantages and is incontrovertible.
“It is required to enable meeting up with the increasing demand of health service delivery and it is in line with the Executive Order 001 (ease of doing business) of this administration because it is the confluence of medical informatics, service delivery, public health, and business,” Mamman said