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When considering the e-government initiatives in Sri Lanka there are a lack of Information Technology related projects in health sector. According to a recent study child malnutrition continues to be a serious health concern in post independent Sri Lanka. Therefore in this paper we present the design and architecture of an enhanced multi-agent system to reduce malnutrition (MASRM). This could be used...
When considering the e-government initiatives in Sri Lanka there are a lack of Information Technology related projects in health sector. According to a recent study child malnutrition continues to be a serious health concern in post independent Sri Lanka. Therefore this paper mainly focus on the current situation of e-government and malnutrition status in Sri Lanka and how we can use Agent Technology...
ViduSuwa is an Internationally recognized award winning tele-medicine solution which provides facilities to the remote areas of Sri Lanka. In a country that is rebuilding itself from decades of war, providing extended healthcare facilities to every section of the society is a complex challenge. ViduSuwa offers to meet this challenge by delivering health services at a minimal cost. Patients living...
This article stems from a larger ethnographic study that primarily explored nurses' cancer pain management in Sri Lanka. The findings presented in this article report on two aspects revealed in that study: the Sri Lankan health‐care system and nursing. The findings indicate that the Sri Lankan health‐care system is under considerable strain. Poor hospital management allows doctors to admit too many...
The high penetration of mobile devices and networks globally implies that mobile technologies can be used very effectively in the field of Healthcare in order to compensate the scarcity of resources problem, particularly in developing countries. With the proliferation of mobile technologies, mobile health (mHealth) will play a vital role in the rapidly growing electronic health (eHealth) area. The...
This paper investigates the applicability of an eSolution that improves health care delivery settings in the rural parts of the developing world and discusses about a proposed patient-centric eSolution that suits the Sri Lankan setting. Patients in rural areas incur heavy expenditure in traveling long distances spending lot of time to consult Specialists in cities due to the lack of Specialists in...
Strategic deployment of information communiction technology in health systems is promising to ensure reducing medical cost, enhanced medical treatment-quality and to serve the underserved population. International medical cooperation has served both developed and developing nations to overcome technological and social barriers in e-health deployment in many ways. However, most of the past e-health...
Road traffic injuries are a major, but neglected public health problem in Sri Lanka. As their economic costs are high and emergency trauma care is lacking in the country, the prevention of the road traffic injuries is extremely important. To prevent road traffic injuries, accurate information are mandatory on modes, patterns and trends of crashes and injuries. However, existing surveillance systems...
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