ABSTRACT
The World Health Organization has recognized the role of ‘health telematics’ in improving access to medical and health care, health education, training of health personnel and the management of emergency situations. Telemedicine has become increasingly popular in both industrialized and developing countries. Medical Missions for Children operates a distance medicine network in more than 100 countries, called the Telemedicine Outreach Programme. This programme, a partnership with the World Bank, allows physicians to be electronically linked to patients in remote locations. The Global Video Library of Medicine (GVLM) provides health care workers around the world with free access to an archive of more 25,000 hours of medical video. GVLM is the digital repository of thousands of video-based medical lectures, news programmes, symposia and training sessions, all of which are available to health care providers throughout the world. The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx, New York, acts as a mentoring hospital for the University College Hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria.
