Cardiologists are being encouraged to adopt emerging technologies to enhance efficiency and extend healthcare services to remote and underserved areas, as it emerges that cardiovascular disease accounts for 10 per cent of deaths in the country.
Dr Bernard Samia, President of the Kenya Cardiac Society (KCS), highlighted that the medical profession has struggled with adopting digital solutions, partly because many healthcare workers are accustomed to traditional approaches. "They need to inculcate these new technologies.
The incorporation of these technologies into the existing healthcare system can now be quite robust, where certain hospitals already have a mechanism of how to care for patients," Dr Samia said, on the sidelines of the KCS 42nd Annual Scientific Congress in Mombasa. "When you add on these new systems that are not necessarily integrated, it's like double work for the healthcare provider," he added.
The society has conducted multiple community surveys to track cardiovascular disease trends and identify optimal management strategies.
