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6. Requests to address insufficient network coverage outside major cities in order to
facilitate the sharing of information, materials, skills and knowledge with remote and /
or low-cost regions by :

a. Encouraging operators to expand their networks, especially in the contractual
requirements,
b. Installing internet beacons in the most remote areas;

7. Strongly encourages the development of telemedicine to improve the quality of care
but also to enhance their accessibility by promoting:

a. Tele-consultation, the principle of which is to improve the care of patients by
collecting and transmitting medical information, via a telecommunication
system,
b. Tele-assistance, consisting in establishing a system for remote monitoring of a

patient equipped with a monitoring, alarm and transmission system to a
medical center by one or more health professionals and which is a social or
economical alternative to hospitalisation,

c. Telesurgery, which concerns the remote surgical assistance of an expert
physician or remote assisted surgery;

8. Invites the deployment of e-health by multiplying the creation of web-sites attested by

medical professionals, which:
a. By responding to patients' right to information, facilitate the better
understanding of the treatments offered to them, and therefore guide them to

make informed decisions about the management of their illness,
b. Allow for wider access and dissemination of health information and the
dissemination of preventive medicine;

9. Recommends regular reporting on innovative ICT applications in remote and/or low-
cost areas based on Quality Indicators (QIs) in order to rigorously measure the quality

of practice; these QIs will:
a. Be defined in terms of: patient safety, care coordination, care affordability,
effective treatment, and accessibility, that rely on hospital inpatient
administrative data,

b. Act as screens to help us examine quality of care and indicate the need for
more in depth studies;

10. Calls for the use of smartphone applications and software, likely used by humanitarian
aid workers who have access to a smartphone, that aid in data collection, particularly
in low-resource and low-income areas, including:

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