Telehealth can bridge the hospital infrastructure and service gap in India and promise quality healthcare to all. As a step forward in this direction, Telemedicine Society of India (TSI) will launch the first-of-its-kind ‘Tele-Health Report’ of India at Telemedicon 2011 conference to be held from November 11-13 in Mumbai

There exists a vast disparity in the quality and availability of healthcare services in urban and rural areas in India. Inadequacies in India’s healthcare infrastructure have led to severe gaps in rural areas, despite the fact that 70 percent of Indians live in rural India. Urban India has 5 to 7 times the number of hospitals, dispensaries, hospital beds, and physicians per 100,000 people than there are in rural India. The Telemedicine Society of India (TSI) has worked arduously to encourage and popularise the use and adoption of telehealth across the country. The need for a compendium of knowledge on the history, progress and future of tele-health market in India has been felt for a long time. To fill this knowledge gap, TSI launched the first-of-its-kind ‘Tele-Health Report of India’. For the success of telemedicine in India, the pre-requisite remains to be strong collaboration between the technology providers and doctors to ensure the technology deployment, adoption and use occurs seamlessly in any part of the country. This collaborative learning platform has opened new market opportunities and business models for the private sector technology providers in healthcare. So, tele-health in India is an exciting market for the technology providers—although currently at a nascent stage – it holds immense growth potential in both rural and urban healthcare delivery systems in India......Read More

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