Podcast: Dr. William Kleynhans on telehealth in Africa

Dr. William Kleynhans is the medical advisor for several South African telehealth products that have also been successfully rolled out in the USA, Canada and the UK’s NHS. He discusses the various aspects of telehealth and how they compare - and benefit - from being developed within an African context.

Overview

1. Introduction and credentials

2. Telehealth in Africa vs rest of the world

3. The use of telehealth during Covid-19

4. Africa does not have telehealth legacy issues

5. Minimum requirements for remote patient consultations

6. Optimising primary care with provider-to-provider consults

7. Patient expectations have changed

8. Barriers to implementing telehealth infrastructures

9. Clinical data management and patient privacy

10. Improve clinical compliance and efficiency with telehealth

11. Tele-auscultation in the times of Covid-19 

12. Looking ahead in telehealth development

The ability to do tele-auscultation with TeleSensi®, means a single specialist can safely attend to a dramatically increased number of patients via an extended primary care network.