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Project VITAL: Telehealth Innovation for Healthcare Equity in Africa

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5 May 2024

Globally, an estimated 148.4 million people require humanitarian aid due to conflict and climate-related disasters, with approximately 89.3 million displaced individuals lacking access to essential healthcare services 1,2. Heightened attacks on healthcare facilities and workers exacerbate these challenges, particularly in Africa, where a severe shortage of health workers is anticipated to reach 6.1 million by 2030 3,4. In 2015, the region faced significant deficits, with only 1.30 health workers per 1000 people compared to the 4.5 needed to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 5,6. Conflict-ridden areas like Cameroon/Sahel, home to over 30 million people in need of humanitarian assistance and mental health support, grapple with the highest maternal mortality rates globally amidst climate change impacts and security concerns 7. West and Central African regions have the highest maternal mortality rates globally while suffering from the effects of climate change, including extreme heat, droughts, degradation of agriculture, and security challenges 8,9. Overall, this leads to displaced populations with poor and worsening access to healthcare. In response, Project VITAL pledges to establish a sustainable, culturally sensitive telehealth program for the Cameroon/Sahel region, anchored in the 3S pillars model: sustainability, safety, and security. Sustainability involves forming a steering committee, conducting needs assessments, and empowering local programmers and healthcare providers with technology-focused training and resources. Collaborations with local entities like iDocta, Pasteur Institute of Bangui, and Reach Out Cameroon aim to ensure contextual understanding and long-term viability, supported by a revenue model and governmental compliance. Safety will prioritize safe, quality care, Project VITAL will implement robust review systems aligned with best practices and WHO guidelines. Security means partnering with technology experts, the initiative will ensure secure platforms and devices, adhering to cybersecurity protocols and local regulations. In a closely coordinated effort, Health Tech Without Borders, iDocta, and VSee established a steering committee in the fourth quarter of 2023. Early in 2024, iDocta and the team in Yaoundé, Cameroon, successfully conducted a targeted pilot program using the VSee telehealth platform. Insights gleaned from this pilot are now being meticulously applied to refine and tailor the VSee platform, customizing it to meet the specific needs of local clinicians and patients (Figure 1). Additionally, the Project VITAL team is expanding its workforce, hiring new staff, including clinicians and technical experts, to support project growth and implementation. Strategic outreach efforts have been outlined, engaging key community stakeholders to expand the platform's capabilities, encompassing telehealth, home health visits, laboratory scheduling, prescription refills, and pharmacy requests. Project VITAL is currently on schedule to commence a larger pilot later this year. Presently, the team consists of 4 innovators, including 6 full-time staff (2 female), 1 temporary employee, 3 doctors, 5 developers (1 female), 2 pharmacists, 1 lab technician, and an estimated 50-100 nurses. Additionally, 10 patients are currently participating in the trial phase. After a pilot in Yaoundé, expansion to remote North/Northwest regions will follow, addressing legal, financial, technological, and cultural barriers. Telehealth emerges as a promising solution, offering specialist access, peer consultations, education, triage, and epidemic monitoring, aligning with WHO's vision of equitable, efficient healthcare. With a focus on sustainable partnerships and adherence to equity principles like the Douala Equity Checklist, Project VITAL aims to advance healthcare access, bolster health systems, foster innovation, and empower communities in line with UN SDGs and African Union 2063 Agenda (Figure 2).

Mary Showstark

Yap Boum

Martin Joseph Lubowa

Milton Chen

Robert Arnot

Stella Nam

Marianna Petrea-Imenokhoeva

Lundi-Anne Omam

Annalicia Pickering

Karl G. Njuwa Fai

Inės Obolo

Rachel Essaka

Yannick Mbarga Etoundi

Achille Mvogo

Yves Wasnyo

Jarone Lee

The Development of Urgent Care Telemedicine in Pakistan

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5 May 2024

While 61% of Pakistan’s population lives in rural areas, per the 2023 Pakistan Census Report, there remains a deficiency in access to healthcare in these rural areas (Figure 1) 1. There are only 3.6 physicians per 10,000 people in rural areas when compared to 14.5 physicians per 10,000 people in urban areas 2. Challenges such as violence against healthcare workers, poor infrastructure, lack of employment opportunities, and inadequate facilities deter urban healthcare workers from practicing in rural areas 3. Many rural healthcare centers lack hygiene, infrastructure, and equipment. This results in limited access to care, especially for time-sensitive illnesses 3,4. This is compounded by a shortage of emergency medicine-trained physicians in Pakistan as there are only thirteen emergency medicine residency programs in the country 5. More recently, multiple asynchronous and synchronous telemedicine initiatives have been implemented in Pakistan, with several focusing on care for rural areas. However, there is no current initiative to close the gap between the need for emergency medical services and the lack of providers in rural areas. Our mission at Health Tech Without Borders (HTWB) is to close this gap by connecting urban providers to rural patients requiring urgent care. Given the lack of emergency medicine-trained providers, we created a telemedicine curriculum targeted to train Pakistan-based physicians of all backgrounds and specialties on practicing urgent care. Our telemedicine course consists of a twenty-question pre-test, an introduction to telemedicine primer video including how to set up for a telemedicine visit, and videos focused on four common chief complaints that are appropriate for telemedicine, including diarrhea, cough and respiratory tract infections, fever, and back pain. The course concludes with a twenty question post-test followed by a course survey (Figure 2). Course participants have to score 80% or higher on the post-test to pass the course and receive their certificate. Our course is located on the platform Teachable, and is free for all participants. Our organization, Health Tech Without Borders, is a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding the reach of healthcare globally through innovative and digital means. We partnered with a local Pakistani telemedicine company, Oladoc, to distribute our course with their physician employees. Oladoc is providing HTWB with an encrypted telemedicine platform through which we can provide synchronous video and audio telemedicine. This company operates in all major cities in Pakistan. There are three parts to our project. The first step of our project is to distribute our course through Oladoc to physicians interested in learning more about/ practicing urgent care telemedicine. The second step of our project is to pilot encounters between physicians and patients in medium to large city settings. Once this phase is complete, we plan to expand our reach to connect urban providers with patients in rural settings. Our goal is to provide a mode of healthcare for rural populations, focusing on those who do not currently have any access to care in their geographical regions. We hope to allow for a robust yet efficient and more standardized method of providing urgent care while promoting digital approaches to medicine in Pakistan. As of May 4, 2024, 157 physicians are actively enrolled in the curriculum. Initial findings indicate that while the majority are general practitioners, the participant pool has a diverse array of backgrounds. Remarkably, 72% of them have never received formal training in telemedicine. Feedback from the participants has been overwhelmingly positive: 96% reported that the course met their expectations, 92% acknowledged its role in enhancing their comprehension of virtual healthcare delivery, and all respondents agreed that it deepened their understanding of urgent care principles (Figure 3). Considering that most participants lack specialized training in urgent care, these findings are promising, suggesting the efficacy of standardized telemedicine education for future practitioners. In conclusion, the current telemedicine initiatives mark just the beginning of our journey towards equitable healthcare access in rural Pakistan. Moving forward, we are committed to expanding our reach, refining our curriculum, and fostering partnerships to ensure timely and quality access to healthcare.

Rmaah Memon

Stella Nam

Mary Showstark

Marianna Petrea-Imenokhoeva

Sakina B Naqvi

Jarone Lee

An Innovative Integrated Geospatial Information Systems & Quality Improvement Residency Research Training Program

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22 April 2024

Introduction Participation in scholarly activity during residency has posed barriers to departments that include: research mentorship, an active and supportive research community, formal research infrastructure and programming, and diverse and accessible opportunities for scholarly activity with faculty, staff and communities in our service region. In response to these barriers our team has created a formal QI research training program for psychiatry residents.2 Our solutions include: assembling a dedicated team, which contains both department leadership and a GIS faculty expert, an expanded interdisciplinary team which includes research librarians and grant support, GIS as a tool and science to best orient residents to the regional landscape and needs of our service populations, formal research training covering GIS, Cultural Psychiatry, and Psychometrics in Psychiatry as curricular themes, and a Chief Resident for Research role to facilitate bridges between residents and faculty and to promote a continuous research community. Methods An inquiry-based approach is applied to our formal research curriculum. Year 1 is an inquiry theme focused on basing resident QI research on the needs of our service region. Year 2 is themed research wherein literature reviews, dashboards and Storymaps are the emphasized outputs. Year 3 is themed implementation and residents are supported to use their dashboards with community to aid community organizations in making decisions for and with populations they serve. Lastly, year 4 is themed construct wherein residents are supported to complete and submit manuscripts and grants. Results Our pre-pilot phase was underway as of July 1st, 2023. To begin integrating within the Psychiatry & Neuroscience department as a formal program our team targeted core departmental programming; Grand Rounds, Journal Club, and didactics. We presented our curriculum to department staff, faculty, leadership and some residents during Grand Rounds in a detailed PowerPoint presentation. We worked with the faculty and staff directors of Journal Club to have our 2nd year deliverable of a StoryMap or Dashboard become the presentation for each PGY2. We presented it to all residents at a didactic session. As a follow-up to the didactic presentation we sent residents a QI attitudes and interest survey, which was an adaptation from the BASiC-QI. An estimated 20% of residents responded to the survey. From the residents who responded to the survey, the majority have followed-up with starting regular research mentor meetings with the Vice Chair for Research and advancing their projects. Findings/Conclusions Our pre-pilot year is nearing an end. Our full pilot year will begin on July 1st 2024. Thus far we have accomplished increasing buy-in for the program, and selecting a Chief Resident for Research and Wellness. We have also invited our new cohort of residents to our first annual QI/GIS conference showcase enabling a group of interns to begin a new year within our formal curriculum. We will also formalize the tracking of our increases in scholarly activities and our effectiveness with promoting and supporting scholarly activities within our department. Results from the integration of this program into the department and residency training program will be more evident in phases to come.

Margarita Monge

Angela Reyes

Kendrick A. Davis

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