Improving the health of individuals and communities, and strengthening health systems, disease detection and prevention are crucial to development and poverty

reduction. ICTs have the potential to impact almost every aspect of the health sector. In public health, information management and communication processes are pivotal, and are facilitated or limited by available ICTs.

ICT-Information and Communications Technology is a study or business of developing and using technology to process information and aid communications. ICT can be used nearly everywhere around us; at schools, in police stations, libraries, banks, weather forecasting, supermarkets and in health services. It makes our lives easier, by quicker and good quality research, by storing important information, and quick passing down of any information, in nearly every form that we want.

ICT in health services is used mainly to achieve poverty reduction and improving health of the most poor and exposed to many diseases, because of lack of medicine, people.  It already have made a big impact on the health care by:

Improved  spread of public health information and facilitated public conversations around major health threats.

Enabled distant consultations, diagnosis and treatment trough telemedicine(an application of clinical medicine where medical information is transferred through a phone, internet or other networks)

Facilitated teamwork and cooperation among health workers

More effective health research

Strengthened ability to monitor public health threats and responding to them very quickly

Improved efficiency of administrative systems.

ICT is very important in health services because improving health includes improving public health and medical  programs designed to provide optional, emergency, and long-term clinical care. Reliable information and effective communication, like mobile telephony, e-mails