Rebalancing access to healthcare by implementing an e-health strategy in public hospitals

ongoing

This investment program aims to support the deployment of e-health and apply the use of digital tools in all areas of healthcare provision and in the modernization of public hospital services. It plans to develop four priority applications for the hospital information system in 15 of the country’s public hospitals for a medical imaging system (PACS), electronic health records, digital medical archives and a daily and individualized distribution of drugs.To reduce regional inequalities in access to specialty care, five telemedicine initiatives will be set up for governorates in the north, center and south of Tunisia: tele-cardiology, tele-prenatal care, cardiac emergency, tele-radiology and tele-obstetrical ultrasound.Finally, the structuring and development of a Tunisian e-health collective, oriented internationally and towards the private sector, will be supported.