Correia Artur, Azevedo Vanda, Lapão Luís Velez
Global Health and Tropical Medicine. Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical. Universidade NOVA. Lisboa. Portugal; Comité de Coordenação do Combate à SIDA. Praia. Cabo Verde.; Ministério da Saúde de Cabo Verde. Praia. Cabo Verde.
Ministério da Saúde de Cabo Verde. Praia. Cabo Verde. Colégio de Cardiologia. Ordem dos Médicos de Cabo Verde. Praia. Cabo Verde.
Acta Med Port. 2017 Apr 28;30(4):255-262. doi: 10.20344/amp.7578.
Telemedicine is the provision of health services, where distance is a critical factor, using information and communication technologies. Cape Verde has bet on using this tool to increase access of the population of its islands to specialized care.
Qualitative study, covering the period between 2013 and 2014. It uses document analysis, semi-structured interviews and focus groups to collect data and analysis of content for their analysis. The participant population includes doctors, nurses and professionals from some institutions related to telemedicine.
The priorities of the National Telemedicine Program are set, the cores and reference centers are operational, with trained personnel and equipment installed. Several other policy instruments and conditioning factors and facilitators of the program have been identified.
Telemedicine is contributing to the reduction of inequalities in access to health, in Cape Verde. However, the full adoption of a service based on a new technology depends on conditioning factors and facilitators, and several success factors of telemedicine, identified in the literature, are not observed and in conjunction with other existing weaknesses affect the overall development of the National Telemedicine Program. However the strengths and capabilities are highlighted opportunities to act.
Despite the progress, some telemedicine success factors highlighted on the literature are not seen in the country.
远程医疗是利用信息和通信技术提供医疗服务，其中距离是一个关键因素。佛得角已致力于利用这一工具，增加其各岛屿居民获得专科护理的机会。
定性研究，涵盖2013年至2014年期间。采用文献分析、半结构化访谈和焦点小组来收集数据并对其进行内容分析。参与人群包括医生、护士以及一些与远程医疗相关机构的专业人员。
确定了国家远程医疗计划的优先事项，核心机构和参考中心已投入运营，配备了经过培训的人员和安装了设备。还确定了该计划的其他一些政策工具以及制约因素和促进因素。
在佛得角，远程医疗有助于减少获得医疗服务方面的不平等现象。然而，基于新技术的服务的全面采用取决于制约因素和促进因素，并且文献中确定的远程医疗的几个成功因素并未出现，再加上其他现有的弱点，影响了国家远程医疗计划的整体发展。不过，其优势和能力凸显了采取行动的机会。
尽管取得了进展，但该国并未出现文献中强调的一些远程医疗成功因素。
