India’s attempts to make a foray into the world of telemedicine has not made much headway, especially due to foreign data processing laws and difficulties in certification of qualifications of Indian telemedicine providers, the Planning Commission has said.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has extended its telemedicine project to 14 more districts in Karnataka. With the inauguration of Karnataka Telemedicine Project Operational Phase II, the entire state is now covered under the project, senior ISRO officials said recently.
India would launch a satellite in June next year to provide computer connectivity in remote villages, a Space Department official has said.
[This article was published in the October 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, will connect the hospital’s cancer specialists to patients in rural areas, by providing the country its first mobile mammography service (to be launched soon) in a bid to provide medical aid to breast cancer patients in far-flung rural areas.
[This article was published in the August 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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[This article was published in the August 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
By the application of e-Health, knowledge or information pertaining to a quality and sophisticated healthcare system can be made accessible to remote corners of India, where only rudimentary health infrastructure is available.
[This article was published in the June 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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[This article was published in the May 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
India is an unusual country. It is enjoying booming software exports and is a major destination for business process outsourcing (BPO).
Telemedicine service started about eight years ago in India as pilot basis. Now it has taken matured Major hospitals are expanding their telemedicine centres in India as well as in neighbouring countries.
The first international conference on telemedicine will held in Chennai, India in November 2007. Apollo Hospitals, Sankara Nethralaya and Sri Ramachandra Medical University will sponsor the conference.
The second phase of the Orissa Telemedicine Network will link six districts headquarter hospitals with the three medical college and hospitals in the Orissa, India.
The State Government has approached the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to provide equipments to facilitate the supply of telemedicine in Orissa, India.
