Telemedicine in India: Where do we stand?

被引:90
作者
Chellaiyan, Vinoth G. [1 ]
Nirupama, A. Y. [1 ]
Taneja, Neha [2 ]
机构
[1] Chettinad Acad Res & Educ, Chettinad Hosp & Res Inst, Dept Community Med, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
[2] North DMC Med Coll & Hindu Rao Hosp, Dept Community Med, New Delhi, India
关键词
Applications of telemedicine; history of telemedicine; telemedicine in family medicine; telemedicine in India; telemedicine in public health; types of telemedicine;
D O I
10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_264_19
中图分类号
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要
Telemedicine is considered to be the remote diagnosis and treatment of patients by means of telecommunications technology, thereby providing substantial healthcare to low income regions. Earliest published record of telemedicine is in the first half if the 20th century when ECG was transmitted over telephone lines. From then to today, telemedicine has come a long way in terms of both healthcare delivery and technology. A major role in this was played by NASA and ISRO. The setting up of the National Telemedicine Taskforce by the Health Ministry of India, in 2005, paved way for the success of various projects like the ICMR-AROGYASREE, NeHA and VRCs. Telemedicine also helps family physicians by giving them easy acess to speciality doctors and helping them in close monitoring of patients. Different types of telemedicine services like store and forward, real-time and remote or self-monitoring provides various educational, healthcare delivery and management, disease screening and disaster management services all over the globe. Even though telemedicine cannot be a solution to all the problems, it can surely help decrease the burden of the healthcare system to a large extent.
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