Abstract
We report the outputs of a satellite event in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, organized as part of the “2nd Global Grand Challenges of Engineering Summit”. The event considered challenges and potential solutions for improving low- and middle-income country (LMIC) healthcare systems, with particular reference to critical care. Participants from key regional and local stakeholders in healthcare and engineering discussed how new advances in technology, especially in the field of Artificial Intelligence, could be of potential benefit. This article summarizes the perspectives and conclusions of a group of key stakeholders from LMICs across South and South East Asia.
Highlights
We report the outputs of a satellite event in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, organized as part of the “2nd Global Grand Challenges of Engineering Summit”
We summarize the outputs of the Vietnamese event, which brought together key regional and local stakeholders in healthcare and engineering to discuss challenges and potential benefits of introducing new technologies to improve healthcare in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
Care quality in low- and middle-income country healthcare systems Healthcare systems in many LMICs have undoubtedly improved over the last few decades
Summary
University of Oxford, Any reports and responses or comments on the article can be found at the end of the article. In improving care quality, health systems face many challenges, with regard to critical illness, where providing healthcare is most complex, requiring highly-trained staff and expensive equipment for diagnostics and treatment. These challenges are often common to all resource settings, in LMICs where resources are already limited, overcoming them may be more difficult. Such technologies are attractive in LMIC settings where wearable devices and monitoring systems (e.g. commodity WiFi devices) may be much cheaper (often
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