I have a new article up on called The title is a mouthful, but only because I go into some detail on the differences between cybermedicine and telemedicine both as a matter of legal principle and as concerns the very different policy questions for each. I also can’t excerpt it here for contractual reasons.
While I don’t mention China, India or the ASEAN specifically, I do talk about cybermedicine and telemedicine in the context of developing and/or resource poor areas: the strategic planning approaches one should take when thinking about a cybermedicine initiative versus a telemedicine initiative. China, India and most of the ASEAN countries (excepting Singapore) are understaffed and underfunded at all levels of their healthcare infrastructure but especially in rural areas (To be sure, they are not unique in this respect. As my college professor always says, if you can figure out how to get doctors to work in a rural area you’ll be rich because nobody has been able to do it yet). Therefore the lessons of the article apply equally to the geographic focus of this blog.
(The photo is of Dr. Emilien Diarra in front of the district hospital in Angsongo, Mali. I chose it for two reasons. First because the hospital in the background says more than I ever could about the disparity between the healthcare systems of wealthy urban centers and the disenfranchised poor. Second, because it made me think that the challenges Dr. Diarra has to face in rural Mali are not the type of challenges that are solved by greater access to cybermedicine. Thanks go to Oxfam International, which has made available to the Creative Commons, allowing me to use it here.)
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