Prospects of e-health and agri-digitization in Bangladesh.

1. WELCOME
TO THE PRESENTATION
TOPICS COVERED…
[1] E-HEALTH
[2] AGRI-DIGITIZATION
PRESENTING BY-
MD. RAKIBUL HASAN
NUZHAT NAWAR
DEPARTMENT OF EEE,
KHULNA UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY (KUET)

2. (1) eHealth
THE IMPROVED BUILDING BLOCK OF OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTE

3. Present Scenario
 Critical Shortage of health workforce(numbers of doctors, nurses), beds
 Medical mistake – kill lots of patients
 Failure to follow clinical practice guidelines
 Present e-Health mostly aim for administration and management
 Significant portion of work-hours spent on managing reports and
documents
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4. What Clinicians Want?
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5. The Question Becomes…
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6. Solution
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7. eHealth and it’s component
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 Information and
communication
technologies (ICT) in
‘health’.
 ‘e’ means not only
‘electronic’, there are
10e’s of e-Health.

8. Health Information Exchange
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Hospital A Hospital B
Lab
Patient at home
Government
Clinic

9. eHealth in Bangladesh
 Began in 1998 to enable the efficiency of the implemented systems
 Special emphasis given to eHealth due to the Digital Bangladesh
campaign Vision 2021
 Privacy and Trust remain important issues
 The latest report on eHealth “Our eHealth”, published on August 28,
2012
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10. “Our eHealth”
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Health Service through Mobile
Phones
Telemedicine Service

11. “Our eHealth”
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Complaints-Suggestions through SMS

12. “Our eHealth”
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Office Attendance
Monitoring
Health Statistics
through SMS
Human Resources
Databases

13. Summery
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Systems have
less availability
and more error-
prone
eHealth as the
Solution
Efficient and
reliable health
care system

14. (2) Agri-digitization

15. What is Agri-Digitization?
Digitalization on fields and farmland
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17. Bangladesh agriculture at a glance
1. Total farm holding:1,47,16,000
2. Total area : 14.845 million hectares
3. Cultivable land: 8 million hectares
4. Current fallow land: .469m hectares
5. Annual food production: 31.9m MT
6. Annual food demand: 31.9 m
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18. Importance of agriculture in Bangladesh
 contribute 19.6 percent to the national GDP
 provide employment for 63 percent of the
population.
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19. Challenges:
 Loss of Arable Land
 Population Growth
 Climate Changes
 Inadequate Management Practices (Fertilizer, Water, and Pests &
Diseases)
 Lack of Quality Seeds
 Inadequate Credit Support to Farmers, Unfair Price of Produces,
and Insufficient Investment in Research
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Agri-
digitization
is the
solution
Our requirement
 Grow more food with fewer
resources on less land

21. Agri-digitization
Smart farming
Precision farming
E-agriculture
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22. Benefits
 Quickest dissemination of agricultural information and technology;
 Getting demand driven agricultural suggestions;
 Farmers can get appropriate solution from the concern expert direct
from the field;
 Production cost become less so getting maximum yield and
production;
 Exact result can be ensured directly and immediately for the
betterment of agriculture;
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23. Agri-digitization in Bangladesh
 E Village devices distributed among the
farmers to kick start the digitization of
agriculture in Bangladesh
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 A female farmer from Pajuliya receives a device and
smartphone from Mr Jahid Ahsan Russel, MP

24. Agri-digitization in Bangladesh
A Bangla interface of the app is already in
place considering the lack of English
knowledge among the farmers.
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25. Agri-digitization in Bangladesh
Vision 2021
Greater productivity, diversification
and commercialisation of agriculture
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26. Conclusion
 Enable resource efficient agriculture, with rising yields and
decreasing costs, while being environmentally friendly
 Agri-digitization is not just for farms. There should be a part of the
curriculum in schools, universities and research institutions on
digital technologies
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27. Question?
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