How is the Internet helping tele-medicine to grow in villages of India? An article recently published in Moneycontrol website points out the benefits of Internet in shaping tele-medicine in India.
Excerpt:”But now, Telemedicine has got a new lease of life, thanks to the spread of the Internet. With the number of Internet users growing by leaps and bounds (numbering over 50 million as of December 2005, according to Internetworldstats.com) and broadband set to explode into Indian homes, the World Wide Web might just be the medicine that the doctor had prescribed for an ailing tele-medicine.”
and “The advent of the Internet in healthcare has divided the field into two distinct approaches: eHealth and telemedicine. eHealth mainly deals with dissemination of information over the Internet. Telemedicine deals with the provision of actual treatment through e-consultation and videoconferencing.”
Read the full article at:
Doc’s prescription for tele-medicine.
Questions for us to explore are: Is it possible to digitally archive all the procedures that have been conducted through tele-medicine for future references? How would this help to doctors in training? Can medical libraries help in the archival process? Where would the funding come from?
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