Telemedicine may be a useful technique for delivering health care in the developing world.
However, there is little practical experience to draw on and real concerns that if additional
resources were to become available telemedicine might not be the most appropriate use for
them. The logical steps to determine the place of telemedicine in the developing world
therefore appear to be: 1 to identify potential telemedicine projectsthe Telecommunication
Development Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union is trying to do this and …

Since the place of telemedicine in the industrialized world is by no means properly worked
out yet, it might seem premature to consider its use in developing countries. Nonetheless,
there is interest in the possible use of telemedicine in developing countries, from at least two
organizations: