Sri Lanka second only to the US in digital health
15-Oct-17, The Sunday Times
Sri Lanka has several unique achievements in the field of digital health, being the second country after the US to recognise health informatics as a medical speciality, it was noted at an international medical gathering in Colombo.
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"We are taking steps to implement digital informatics speciality to cover 300 hospitals in the first phase by 2019 and later to cover the whole country," said the Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Dr. Rajitha Senaratne.
He said the public information systems are being developed rapidly and the Health Ministry hopes to set up an electronic reproductive information platform to cover the whole country. "Information systems regarding diseases such as Tuberculosis, respiratory diseases, HIV and AIDS, and Malaria information systems are developed by our own health officials with international support."