Telemedicine | Public Institutions

This compendium, prepared by the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), aims to capture emerging trends in digital responses of UN Member States against the COVID-19 pandemic along with other digital government initiatives and provide a preliminary analysis of their main features. These cases are shared for exchange of information so that Member States can learn from each other and possibly create new partnerships.

With the purpose of reducing the number of people going to Primary Healthcare centres and to Hospital, the Department of Health in collaboration with the Malta IT Agency (MITA) started the introduction of online consultations through the use of video conferencing tools. This is bringing about a change in the way health practitioners provide the service and on how patients interact with the practitioners, so an element of training was required.

Country

Malta

Institution

Ministry for Health