Lugn Nancy E
Perceptive Informatics, Waltham, MA 02451, USA.
J Telemed Telecare. 2006;12(3):109-10. doi: 10.1258/135763306776738576.
The World Health Assembly has acknowledged that telehealth could play an important role in providing access to health care for populations at risk worldwide. The Cambodia Teleconsultation Programme or Village Leap Programme connects those in need of health care, with those willing to share their medical expertise. Telemedicine clinics are run every other week at one of two villages in northern Cambodia. The nurse is responsible for gathering medical information and transmitting it by email to physicians in the USA, and to the Sihanouk Hospital of Hope in Phnom Phen. Poorer countries do not and are not likely to have national telemedicine programmes in the near future. But as the experience in Cambodia shows, grass-root telemedicine programmes can make a difference. The need is great and we can no longer wait for governments to lead. Thoughtfully implemented telemedicine programmes providing medical education, health care and screening may change the health of the world.
世界卫生大会承认，远程医疗在为全球面临风险的人群提供医疗服务方面可发挥重要作用。柬埔寨远程会诊项目或“乡村飞跃”项目将需要医疗服务的人与愿意分享其医学专业知识的人联系起来。远程医疗诊所每隔一周在柬埔寨北部的两个村庄之一开办。护士负责收集医疗信息，并通过电子邮件将其发送给美国的医生以及金边的西哈努克希望医院。较贫穷的国家目前没有且近期也不太可能有国家远程医疗项目。但正如柬埔寨的经验所示，基层远程医疗项目能发挥作用。需求巨大，我们不能再坐等政府来引领。精心实施的提供医学教育、医疗服务和筛查的远程医疗项目可能会改变世界的健康状况。
