The advancement in telecommunication and satellite communication in the recent years has experienced many fold development in India in IT enabled services, BPOs, Overseas communication, rural telephony, and also in the field of medicine. Telemedicine is the new buzz word amongst the healthcare administrators around the world and the buzz is catching fast in India too.

In the last decade leading hospitals and healthcare providers in India have used telemedicine as a medium of communication between medical fraternity in seeking opinion for rendering better patient care services and sharing of knowledge base to the fellow counterparts.

Making healthcare accessible reduces investment in health thus contributing to overall economic and social development. India faces various problems in the provision of medical services and health care, including funds, expertise and resources. To meet this challenge, the governments and private health care providers must make use of existing resources and the benefits of modern technology. Also with limited medical expertise and resources, telecommunication services have the potential to provide a solution to some of these problems. Telemedicine has the potential to improve both the quality and the access to health care regardless of the geography. It enables medical and health care expertise to be accessed from under served locations.......Read More

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