Board Membership

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Board members consist of the following:

President: Dr Adebola Olajide

Vice President:

Secretary:

Financial Secretary:

Treasurer:

Public Relations Officer:

 

Organisational Structure

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 Organizational Structures

 

                     

 

	MEMBERSHIP CATEGORY	DESCRIPTION	MEMBERSHIP FEE
	board	The board member shall be elected into office.	Paying member
	Honourary/Advisory	The board of directors shall decide whether an individual shall be considered its honourary member.	no fee
	associated	Associated members shall be organizations involve in telemedicine and eHealth	N70,000
	institutional	Institutional members shall be governmental and non-governmental academic institutions such as universities, clinics, research institutes, and their sponsoring organizations.	N70,000
	corporate	Corporate members shall be commercial organizations such as manufacturers, distributors and service providers in the field of telemedicine and eHealth.	N140,000
	individual	Individual members shall be natural persons concerned with telemedicine and eHealth.	N10,000
	student	Student members are non-voting members who shall be natural persons undergoing academic training (undergraduate students). Postgraduate students should register as individual member.	2,000

 

 

 

§  Membership is a multi-disciplinary composition from all over Nigeria and outside the country

 

§  To run only one National Secretariat in Abuja, for effective take off.

The Board of Trustees is six in number with four other voted members to make a total of ten. The Executive Board members are the officers of the Society.

Strategy and Programmes

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Mission

 

Introduction of Telemedicine  and creation of eHealth network in Nigeria  for the aim of providing  the national medical community and the general population with a rapid, reliable and cost effective way of healthcare delivery services; medical education including research, development, practical application and supplementary training to promote national health telematics particularly telemedicine  and eHealth.

 

 

 

Motto

 

 

 

Technology for Improving National Health

 

 

 

§  How to achieve our Mission

 

 

 

Objectives

 

 

 

·        Support co-operation between non-governmental organisations/ institutions and governmental institutions/organisations in implementing national telemedicine and eHealth strategy in Nigeria.

 

 

 

·        Support national telemedicine and eHealth programs

 

 

 

·        Promote the cause of telemedicine and eHealth within public and private health institutions within Nigeria and other International Institutions/ organisations.

 

·        Contribute initial and supplementary theoretical training in the field of telemedicine and eHealth, including its application throughout the health sector regardless of professional or geographical limits.

 

 

 

·        Bring together telemedicine and eHealth users, Scientists, researchers, sponsors, advisers, manufacturers, distributors and their scientific personnel.

 

 

 

·        Promote the formulation and publication of rules for good practice and guidelines and information on the course of action.

 

 

 

·        Support activities relating to establishment of appropriate legal outline, conditions for telemedicine and eHealth applications in Nigeria.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Activities

 

·        Networking with international telemedicine and eHealth communities.

 

 

 

·        Dissemination of information and creation of awareness on telemedicine and eHealth issues in Nigeria via the society’s websites

 

 

 

·        Participation in working groups in Nigeria to promote extensive use of existing standards such as DICOM, HL7

 

 

 

·        Offering assistance on legal matters bordering on telemedicine and eHealth.

 

 

 

·        Open dialogue and co-operation between industry in Nigeria to promote the development of innovative products, solutions, and services in telemedicine and eHealth.

 

 

 

·        Offering special discounts for adverts and publications in the Society’s official scientific Journal ‘The Nigerian Journal of Telemedicine & eHealth’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Benefits

 

·        If the decision makers in government institutions in Nigeria will take into account eHealth services within the framework of National health policy

 

 

 

·        SFTeHIN can play  a role through its objectives/activities in implementing national eHealth strategy that will yield results nationally;

 

 

 

·        To improve the quality, efficiency of healthcare services

 

 

 

·        To reduce the cost of healthcare services

 

 

 

·        To improve access to medical knowledge-makes the patient to become an educated and informed consumer, effective & economic tool to train and educate medical students / doctors and healthcare professionals with international standard.

 

 

 

·        To reinforce national Health structures.

 

Critical Success Factors

 

·        Strong commitment of members of the society, partners, collaborators and participating institutions

 

·        Availability of resources to fund activities

 

·        Demonstrated benefit to members, participating institutions and the entire nation

Evidence of the objectives/ activities

History

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Introduction / Brief History
The International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (ISfTeH), originally formed in 1997 to represent individuals with an interest in telemedicine, re-founded under Swiss Law in 2003. One of the essential changes was the transformation from an organization of individuals into an umbrella association for national telemedicine and eHealth organization, which is politically neutral and democratic. The main activities of the society are promotion and support of telemedicine and eHealth activities worldwide, assisting the start-up of new national organization and supporting developing countries in the   fields of telemedicine and eHealth.

The First Nigerian to be a member of ISFTeH was Dr. Olajide Joseph Adebola, followed by Dr. Taiwo Joseph-Kolo, Dr. BabaJide Lawson, Dr. Oladapo Olayiwola and Dr. Olushola Ojo.

At the ordinary General Assembly of ISFTeH held at Luxexpo, Luxembourg April  6, 2005, fifty-eight  countries was represented  and Nigeria was proudly represented by Dr. Olajide Joseph Adebola. The congress generally agreed that individual members should get eHealth association started in their respective countries to help facilitate development, dissemination of knowledge in telemedicine and eHealth worldwide.

Society for Telemedicine and eHealth in Nigeria (SFTeHIN) was established April 2005 and presided by Dr. Olajide Joseph Adebola and became national representative member ISfTeH July 2005.

The Society is also participating in the World health Organization Global observatory for eHealth systems (GOe), an initiative of the Department of e-health unit, knowledge management and sharing World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. GOe is a worldwide instrument for promoting best practices in telemedicine and eHealth.

The Society for Telemedicine and eHealth in Nigeria (SFTeHIN) is a non-governmental and not-for-profit society, a national representative member International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (ISfTeH) registered in Switzerland. It is geopolitically neutral and democratic.

The Society will be collaborating with the WHO collaborating centre on Telemedicine, Norwegian Telemedicine centre, Norway, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and National eGovernment Strategies (NeGsT) and other relevant institutions on projects, research and training.

The society has placed Nigeria in the league of Nation involved in Telemedicine and eHealth for the promotion of global competitiveness facilitating national dissemination of knowledge and experience on telemedicine and eHealth and to provide access to recognized experts in the field in Nigeria.

SFTeHIN took the initiative of organizing multi-national stakeholders meeting on “Developing Sustainable Telemedicine and eHealth Programme for Nigeria” in September 27th 2005 which involve public private partnership. To support the Federal Government of Nigeria policy for Information Technology (IT) to invest in IT-based health care systems to ensure that Nigerians have access to good health care delivery.  A high level of collaboration is a huge value among stakeholders and the most critical success factor in any telemedicine and eHealth initiative.


The meeting’s objectives were:
I.    To bring stakeholders together and raise awareness at the national level on the need to have a national telemedicine and eHealth programme for Nigeria.
ii.    To ascertain the readiness of stakeholders to deploy telemedicine and eHealth services within the healthcare delivery system in Nigeria
iii.    To make recommendations on developing sustainable telemedicine and eHealth program in Nigeria