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All the centres will be provided with facilities for video-conferencing, ECG, ultra-sound and other facilities. The nurses at these centres will collect the results and communicate them with the experts in the call centres at Chennai. Based on their advice, first, aid will be provided and the patient will be referred to the suitable hospitals nearby.

Coimbatore collector M Karunagaran inaugurated the facility at the clinic in the presence of Prathap C Reddy, Chairman, Apollo hospitals and Jaggi Vasudev, founder of Isha foundations.

The Holistic Healthcare Foundation has launched a ‘telemedicine’ mission with the aim of supporting the government and providing quality healthcare to people living below poverty line.

According to a press release, the mission will integrate Aadhaar card numbers of people and formulate a consortium of Central and State governments, government hospitals, super speciality hospitals and telemedicine system providers.

"Telemedicine services would reach out to people in far-flung areas and connect patients with consultant doctors. For the moment we are a focused on remote districts where there is a shortage of doctors," said Krishn.

The first of its kind initiative is aimed at offering education, diagnosis, and treatment to thousands of patients living with epilepsy in rural areas. Says Safia Rizvi, managing director, UCB India, "In order to take forward the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the field of epilepsy, Hope on Wheels project will touch the lives of over 50,000 patients and healthcare providers in Rajasthan through a Mobile Health Clinic (MHC) set up equipped with video conferencing or telemedicine facility.

Doctor Insta, which recently launched its services in India, can, through the use of video and audio, look, listen, and engage with patients.

Telemedicine-focused startup Doctor Insta has received funding of $500,000 from angel investor Rishi Parti and US-based venture capital firm, BrahmaX Ventures, the company announced on Tuesday.

The financial terms of the pre-Series A round of funding were not disclosed, but in a prepared statement, the startup said it is also planning to raise fresh capital, ranging between $1 million and $2 million, to finance further growth.

Karutha Gengachi, a 47 year-old single woman in Alanganallur near Madurai in Tamil Nadu had trouble in her eyes for some time. It got so bad that she could barely see anything and neighbours had to intervene by taking her to the vision centre started by Aravind Eye Care in Alanganallur itself.

Soon, she was being seen by a doctor on a big broadband-connected LCD screen from Madurai’s main hospital. Nagalakshmi, a paramedic-cum-coordinator at the centre, did the basic tests and declared that Gengachi had cataract in both her eyes and the surgeon on the screen advised eye surgery. She was not charged anything for the operation at Madurai’s Aravind eye care for a surgery that costs Rs 6000. After a few months, she went back to get her second eye corrected. Today, thanks to those operations, she is writing out documents for a vendor at the registrar’s office in the small town, earning enough to keep herself going.

Thanks to the dynamic vision of the state government, the successful implementation of this Project has enabled the spread of cost effective Homoeopathic medicine to the masses living in the remotest places of the state.

Considered the first of its kind project in the world, the ICT model has reached the doorstep of the hitherto inaccessible rural masses as part of the efforts at achieving the Millennium Development Goal, benefiting thousands of hapless people to preventive and curative health care systems.

By Saturday morning, 12 crore Aadhaar numbers would have been generated and by March, the programme would have delivered on its original mandate of registering 20 crore people, it was announced. It will need the government’s nod to go on further.

To assist people suffering from different health-related issues during the Covid-19 lockdown, the Agra smart city private limited (ASCL) launched e-Doctor Seva, a tele-video consultation facility on Friday.

The consultation facility will be available from 10am to 12:30pm (Monday to Saturday). For consultation, citizens will have to log into https://tinyurl.com/edoctorapp and schedule an appointment with the respective doctors.

Urmila Devi (68) was referred to Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI) in Lucknow last year when Patna Medical College and Hospital doctors could not cure her oedema.

She got cured soon after, but patients like her can now expect treatment by experts in Lucknow without leaving Patna. Under a telemedicine plan, Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) is going to get linked to SGPGI, Lucknow, allowing patients to tap experts' service available at the super-speciality hospital in Uttar Pradesh. Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technology to provide clinical health care at a distance.

Even Asia is getting in on the market.But the place to be for telemedicine product and solution marketers is India and China, according to a new research report by RNCOS.

The report states that telecommunications networks and technologies are skyrocketing in these economies, “where the demographic profiles are large, and non-uniform healthcare facilities are available,” according to a company press release.

The Indian government is moving to connect African Union countries with a satellite and fiber-optic network to enable the sharing of India's expertise in education and health care.

The Mercury Nimbus Suite is based on the concepts and technologies developed in a project earlier funded by Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Government of India.

The Indian government has been investing in the technology to make healthcare accessible and affordable for the country's rural population, according to The Lancet. Telemedicine works like a regular medical consultation—except the doctor is on a computer screen peering through a webcam, and the patient's vitals are monitored by traditional equipment such as stethoscopes hooked up to computers (a more precise explanation can be found here and here). Sometimes a general physician is present, but the specialist reading and interpreting the information is located remotely.

Addressing reporters through teleconference from Regensburg University in Germany, he said low cost products could promote telemedicine in a big way.

Afghan Minister for Public Health Syed Mohammad Amin Fatimi and Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan Jayant Prasad signed the MOU on behalf of their respective governments.

While the Indian project, dubbed e-Network, is equipped to support tele-education, e-governance, e-commerce, infotainment and resource mapping, the Japanese project is focused on tele-education and e-governance.

This will be preceded by the establishment of a department of telemedicine in the varsity, which will also be the first such department in a medical university, Dr. Hussain claimed.