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What is Telemedicine

Tele medicine is a technical savvy method by which medical facility is taken to rural areas through the help of computers, video conferencing and image transfers. Tele medicine enables a doctor from one end to interact with his patients sitting at a remote end in a faraway place through video conferencing, share data through a computer and diagnose the patient through various Tele medicine diagnostic equipments. There are many advantages in this field.For example the patient can get help from expert doctors from anywhere in the world, the patient need not travel all the way to the hospital to get an opinion, thus the patient can save a lot of time and money.

Tele medicine in India

Tele medicine is very new to India and hospitals in India have just started to know the advantage of Tele medicine. . The Apollo hospitals are the first one in India to use Tele medicine. They started Tele medicine from Chennai Apollo to Arakonda a remote village in Andhra pradesh and has been quite successful in treating people there. Now their Tele medicine wing has spread to about 50 locations in India and still expanding. They have tie up with many hospitals in the northeastern states, Andaman and many military hospitals in India and offer this wonderful service. Even many Engineering Colleges in India are now using this facility to provide medical services to the villages.

Advantages of Tele medicine

For the Patients:

• People at remote areas get top class medical facility from reputed hospitals and Doctors.
• Reduces travel cost and save time for the patients.
• Reduces a lot of inconvenience for the patient

For the Hospitals:

• Hospitals can spread their reach in remote villages and serve people without much investment on the infrastructure.
• The hospitals get revenue from the references made from remote locations.
• After care or post operation care patients need not come to the main hospital for minor consultation
• Primary diagnostics can be done with the use of Tele medicine and patient can come to the main hospital for major surgery.
• Hospitals can have CME programs with other hospitals and doctors.
• Hospital can run training programs form their hospitals to staffs and doctors of other hospitals
• A rare operation or a diagnosis can be broadcast to other hospitals
• Doctors can learn many new techniques by connecting to foreign hospitals and interacting with them
• Overseas consultation and second opinion can be done
• Interviews can be conducted

Requirements For A Basic Telemedicine Facility:

• ISDN Line : 1 No
• NT Box : 1 No
• 20" and above Color TV : 1 No
• PC with Multimedia Kit : 1 No
• 1.5 KVA UPS : 1 No
• Terminal Adapter : 1 No
• 128Kbps ISDN VideoConferencing Kit : 1 No
• VGA to PAL converter : 1 No
• High Resolution Digital Camera (3.1mp): 1 No
  With all the above equipments and a junior Doctor to assist, a basic Telemedicine facility can be made available in a Hospital.To know the cost to setup a Telemedicine Centre email us @ impexinc@vsnl.com.

How to use Tele medicine facility:

The facility when available in the hospital can be used in various ways. The hospital can get a number of patients from other places by linking up with hospitals at rural areas with Tele medicine facility. The doctors at the hospital can have a similar facility at home or at their OP centers and connect to the hospital to review patients. Doctors at the hospital can connect to other specialized hospitals to get second opinion on patients as and when required.

Cost of setting up a Tele medicine center:

The cost of setting up a Tele medicine center differs from place to place and the type of facility they would like to offer. For more informations contact us.

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