Towards a Regional Innovation System for Telemedicine in South Africa

The South African government identified telemedicine as a strategic tool to improve delivery of equitable healthcare and educational services. However, the advancement of telemedicine is hindered by the fact that not many South African medical practitioners dwell in the domain of information and communication technicians and visa versa. Attempts to advance healthcare in South Africa are disparate and parties doing complementary work, often do not know of each other. The purpose of this project is to come up with a framework that can be used as a business model towards the establishing of a regional innovation system (RIS) for the advancement of telemedicine, firstly in South Africa.