id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ajlm-2329	Erasmus, Rajiv; Ondoa, Pascale	Taking the train of digital health and artificial intelligence to improve medical laboratory service in Africa: Key considerations	2023		.htm	text/html	1622	96	32	Integrating digital technologies and AI into laboratory services has the potential to transform diagnostic services and contribute to the implementation of the May 2023 resolution of 76th World Health Assembly on strengthening diagnostics in Africa and other countries to improve positive patient, public and global health outcomes.14 Regional agencies such as the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have already taken the lead in developing continental frameworks to guide the implementation of digital technologies in public health systems,15 as well as in launching initiatives such as HealthConnekt to build the internet connectivity infrastructure in Africa, to allow the continent to align with the World Health Organization’s deliberate strategy to use digital technology as a force to transform primary healthcare.16 Moving forward, Africa-led knowledge networks, such as the African Society for Laboratory Medicine’s Laboratory Strengthening Community of Practice and Laboratory Directors Forum17,18 can play a major role in identifying priorities, best practices, operational requirements and ethical considerations for the implementation of digital and AI technology in African laboratory medicine. Digital technologies are also being used to streamline processes for quality assurance and laboratory	cache/ajlm-2329.htm	txt/ajlm-2329.txt