It is by far the prime method of healthcare service delivery in the near future. It is the niche that will be provided to us to maintain the efficiencies needed in affordable healthcare provisions. And in India, it is taking the health market by storm. Telemedicine in India is a product of the 20th century high-tech innovations, allowing for interactive sessions amongst the patients and the medicos, all the while, maintaining the privacy and integrity. It also involves the sending of medical images and health data across channels.
It can be roughly classified into 3 main branches based on the type of service provided; store-and-forward telemedicine, real-time interaction sessions, and remote monitoring of patients.The Telemedicine Society of India, a government initiative, providing Telemedicine and online health-care is not the only provider in this field. It is backed by many growing and developed private institutes serving this premium feature.
This new addition to the array of medical services is highly beneficial to those people who live in remote places and inaccessible communities. They receive intensive care from specialists online, without having to travel for solutions to their medical maladies. Online patient visits and prescription generation and h-drug administration reduces drastically the cost of medical services.
On the darker side, huge expenditure is involved n the setting-up and initialising of this process. It also reduces face-to-face interaction and totally removes the play of emotions. Despite all its flaws, telemedicine in India is maturing to an advanced level at a high rate. In this era, when the average consumer carries out almost all of his day to day activities online, it is definitely not a surprise that healthcare and advanced medicine departments should also be handled in the same fashion.
By - Rounak Bose
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