Welcome to South African Telemedicine

Vision and Mission

South African Telemedicine is a collaboration whose vision is to be a  multidisciplinary centre synergising efforts to be a world class entity not only capacitating practitioners and scholars in the areas of engineering and medicine, but also in being a economically viable entity producing relevant and responsive state of the art telemedicine infrastructure, services, products and systems.

Strategy

• Facilitate constructive interaction between researchers, scholars, practitioners, developers, funders and users of telemedicine, through communication and the facilitation of initiatives and opportunities as well as the dissemination of research results.
• Build research capacity by introducing engineers and technicians to the science of healthcare and by introducing healthcare practitioners to relevant technology. This is done through the incorporation of telemedicine topics in the existing curricula of post graduate programmes, certificates and research programs.
• Render various telemedicine clinical services as well as technical support and maintenance services.

What is Telemedicine?

Telemedicine is the delivery of healthcare services, where distance is a critical factor, by all healthcare professionals using information and communications technologies for the exchange of valid information for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease and injuries, research and evaluation, and for the continuing education of healthcare providers, all in the interest of advancing the health of individuals and their communities.

Medical Research Council