DOI: 10.36347/sjds.2018.v05i03.004

Pages: 133-138

This study has addressed the use of e-health in the enrolment/recruitment and monitoring of patient with cleft lip and palate in Mali during humanitarian mission of Rotaplast 2012. It was a prospective and descriptive study which has covered an eight-month period from January to August 2012. Structures involved in the study were National Agency of Tele Health and Medical Informatics (NATHMI), NGO Horizon Vert, Mother and Child Hospital Center “Le Luxembourg” (MCHC). The population studied has amounted to 142 patients during enrolment/recruitment phase with 87 patients who have been taken care and followed during six months after surgical act. In view of this study’s results, we can conclude that the use of information and communication technologies in health field allows for better coordination and management of patients. Then, EHealth initiatives contribute to gathering information and transferring competence among health workers. EHealth has neither finished revealing its merits nor even its limits.