Study on e-Health System in Bangladesh: Prospect and Challenges

Abstract

Uses of ICT in health sector is increasing day by day all over the world. Modern equipment are being manufactured by Vendor Company and industry which is added value in health care sector. Recently in academia, various research is going on for getting optimum result by using modern equipment in health sector. Though Bangladesh is a developing country, it is not much lack behind that trend. Recently, a great impact of IT of health sector in Bangladesh become very visible. However, still in some sector of e-health, current scenario of Bangladesh is at its rudimentary stage and there are few gaps which need to be fulfilled at this stage. We identify these gaps and provide recommendation. In our work, first of all we try to analyze the scenario of multi packet perspective. Secondly, we compare the e-health system (electronic health record, electronic medical record, telehealth and telemedicine, mobile health) in Bangladesh with the other developed, developing and underdeveloped country. We also try to focus on the universal standard (HL7, FHIR, and CDA) of e-health practice and interoperability of health record data of DGHS website. We have tried to make a platform to migrate the data and also identified the challenge in doing this