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Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) has approved first Telemedicine project of Health Information Resource Centre (HIRC). The project was developed in collaboration with Pakistan Medical Research Council (PMRC) and National Telemedicine Forum (NTF) a working group of Technology Resource Mobilization Unit (TReMU).
The advances in information and communication technology, are providing new opportunities to the developing countries to leapfrog ahead. The new millennium has ushered in a world of greater inter-connectivity, accelerating flow of data, and shrinking time and national boundaries. Millions of people are now wired in around the globe and around one billion will be online by 2005. Rapidly falling costs of communications and computing and the extraordinary penetration and accessibility of World Wide Web is turning the world into a global village. Knowledge sharing is the interactive process of making the right information available to people at the right time in a comprehensible manner to enable them to act judiciously enriching the knowledge base in the entire mechanism. Knowledge-sharing can occur at all levels between countries, within a country, between communities and among individuals. The quantum leaps in the technological revolution has made it possible to amalgamate local knowledge with information held in remote databases and information repositories, transcending hierarchies, classes and cultures to bring about a greater understanding of the conditions leading to poverty and the factors propagating it. The opportunities arising out of the info-tech revolution are immense and when combined with a visionary approach and political-stimulant becomes a powerful tool to transform the existing societal framework. Health Information Resource Centre(HIRC) will:
Generally facilitate access to Pakistan health information through one window health information resource. And Specifically Development of a website for the dissemination of information generated within Pakistan through:
Establishment of a Health Information resource centre at the Pakistan Medical Research Council (Head office) for the support and maintenance of the website. This centralized information available online will facilitate National Health policy makers for allocating resources according to health statistics, International Donor Agencies and countries for granting Aid for specific Health hazards in Pakistan. |
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