TeleInViVo allows the processing, storing and retrieval processes to take place. Thus, application of telematic techniques facilitates patient management and diagnosis, by reducing patient referral, and saving time. In Uganda, the Ministry of Health has established a telemedicine taskforce, which is understudying the activities of our project for possible replication. There are two students from the surgery and technology faculties who are also doing research on the project. This will help in building local capacity and understanding of the project.
Similar optimism exists in Kazakhstan, where telemedicine is an increasingly high priority area.
The ability of specialist doctors to link up to and support remote doctors in consultation and diagnosis could help to create a major inter-national shift, in both the practices and principles of health care.