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“TELEMEDICINE PROVIDES
HEALTHCARE WHERE THERE IS
NONE AND
IMPROVES THE HEALTH CARE
WHERE THERE IS SOME”
Telemedicine
Realtime (synchronous)
Involves acquiring medical data (like medical images, biosignals etc) and then
transmitting this data to a doctor or medical specialist at a convenient time for
assessment offline.
Does not require the presence of both parties at the same time.
Dermatology, radiology, and pathology.
A properly structured Medical Record preferably in electronic form should be a
component of this transfer.
Teleradiology, the sending of x-rays, CT scans, or MRIs (store-and-forward
images).
Many radiologists are installing appropriate computer technology in their
homes, so they can have images sent directly to them for diagnosis, instead of
making an off-hours trip to a hospital or clinic.
Application Adopted
Remote
Consultation
Disaster
and Critical
Management
Care
Monitoring
Telemedicine
Application
Telementored Medical
Procedure/ Education
Robotic and Public
Surgery Awareness
Second
Opinion
Advantages of Telemedicine
Resource utilization
Early intervention
Avoids unnecessary transportation
Community based care
Medical education and research
Cost saving
Improved patient documentation
Increased range of care and education.
Resource Utilization
There are factors that inhibit the continuity of care. Issues such as geographic location,
inclement weather, socioeconomic barriers.
Patient apathy are significant factors that delay and even prevent the specialty care.
By providing these primary cure sites with the ability to quickly access specialty
consultation services.
Patients are able to reap the benefits of early intervention while the health care system
maintains quality service and clinical efficiency.
Avoids Unnecessary transportation
Patient can discuss the issues on Video Conferencing with the consultant.
Even the vital parameters and be captured with the help of devices and sent to doctor.
Unnecessary referral and patient transport can be definitely avoided.
Community base Care
When medical students are posted in rural area they can be linked to
medical college for grand rounds and they can also do case presentation
to teachers in medical colleges.
Physicians living in different parts of the world also use telemedicine in
collaborative research, they can also share data or can discuses current
trends.
Cost Saving
ACTUALLY WHAT
HAPPENS DURING A
TELEMEDICINE PROGRAM?
Telemedicine Infrastructure
This will include minimum standards for all the hardware and software used
in a telemedicine system.
Telemedicine platform:
This will include minimum standards for type of platform to be used, processor/minimum speed, memory
requirements, interfaces, and peripherals.
Clinical devices
This will include minimum standards for all the clinical devices to be interfaced or integrated with the
telemedicine system, including performance specifications for devices measuring diagnostic
parameters, imaging devices, compression, and their safety requirements.
Video conferencing units
This will include minimum standards for video conferencing system, including data rate, picture
resolution, frame rate, type of camera, audio quality etc.
Communication hardware
This will include minimum standards for various hardware used for interfacing the telemedicine system
with the communication network, including all types of terrestrial and satellite based networks.
Software
An operating system
Licensed telemedicine S/W with appropriate User Interface(UI)
Back-end Data Base with the mandatory tables/ fields (if applicable)
Connectivity
High cost of health care and lack of investment for health care in rural areas.
Inadequate medical facilities in rural & inaccessible areas.
Problem of retaining doctors in rural areas where they are required to serve &
propagate widespread health awareness.
Need of Telemedicine in India
mHealth
Wi-Fi Smart Scale Otoscope Blood Pressure
Monitor