Publication: Digital Health in Nepal: A Perspective on Overcoming Challenges and Leveraging Opportunities
Date
2025
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Publisher
Kathmandu University
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Digital Health, which encompasses eHealth and mHealth, has revolutionized health
care with input from information technology, computer science, and data. With
the addition of client-centered content, digital health offers to low- and middle-
income countries like Nepal the ability to gather, analyze and disseminate health
information regardless of geographic and socioeconomic challenges. Nepal has
enacted policies to improve the health system while overcoming the barriers of
difficult terrain, internet capability, and low education. This paper will survey
Nepal’s health policy in telecommunication and digital health technology, outline
successful interventions, note challenges and make recommendations for future
activities.
KEY WORDS
Digital Health, Health system, Nepal
Description
Paudel S,1 Paudel D,2 Boucher F3
1Patan Academy of Health Sciences
Lalitpur, Nepal
2Nepal Public Health Association
Lalitpur, Nepal
3University of California Davis
School of Medicine, California, USA
Keywords
Digital Health, Health system, Nepal