Editorial

Taking the train of digital health and artificial intelligence to improve medical laboratory service in Africa: Key considerations

Rajiv Erasmus, Pascale Ondoa
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine | Vol 12, No 1 | a2329 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v12i1.2329 | © 2023 Rajiv Erasmus, Pascale Ondoa | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 06 October 2023 | Published: 30 November 2023

About the author(s)

Rajiv Erasmus, Department of Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; and, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana; and, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellness, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa
Pascale Ondoa, African Society for Laboratory Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and, Department of Global Health, Institute of Global Health and Development, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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Keywords

digiral transfomation; artificial inelligence; Africa; laboratory medicine

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