TThe Moroccan Association for Telemedicine and eHealth (MSfTeH) is a
scientific non-governmental organization (NGO) that was founded in 2011
by scientists, health professionals and engineers as one of the tools to achieve
the ambition of promoting digital health research and implementation and
telemedicine practice in Morocco. The support and endorsement of the
International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth were instrumental in this
creation.
Interests and research projects from members include implementation of
Open Source in Medical Information Systems, medical images analysis,
managing electronic health records, mobile health application, to cite some.
The objective is to promote sustainable telemedicine projects and to increase
the awareness of the importance of a national eHealth roadmap. The MSfeH
is contributing in building local capacities in the field of telemedicine and
eHealth through teaching, research and services. The association focus has
been the increase of awareness of the importance of Telemedicine and
eHealth for a better and efficient health care system.
The MSfTeH organized a number of international eHealth and medical
informatics conferences and workshops in eHealth, telemedicine,
bioinformatics, medical Information and medical informatics. The MSfTeH
is also working in setting up educational and training programs including
workshops, university courses and full master degree in telemedicine,11
medical informatics and eHealth to prepare the missing human resources for
any large implementation of eHealth in the national health system.