Archbishop Desmond Tutu said current health systems were under "huge pressure", they were not sustainable. They needed radical and urgent change if they were to address inequalities and meet the demands of patients into the future.
People had suffered and died living in isolated places. "We now have the power to change this situation", he said in a video address to the national UK health IT conference HC2013.
"Accelerating the use of innovative technologies across the world can benefit all countries," he said.
Tutu, who is the chairman of the Global eHealth Ambassadors Programme, said the technology most accessible to the poor was the mobile phone.
"The mobile phone is the technology of choice," he said.
"E-health and m-health can help the previously helpless share in the benefits of an improved social environment."
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Matthew D'Arcy
Quelle/Source: Public Service, 16.04.2013
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