Telecolposcopy in a tertiary care women's clinic: A pilot study

The role of telemedicine in fostering health-care innovations to address problems of access, specialty shortages and changing patient care needs

“…Telehealth offers ready access to such services when rural communities partner with tertiary and quaternary care facilities, through such applications as telemental health, teledermatology and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/ acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) care. 1,[7][8][9][10][11][12][13] Acute stroke intervention, wherein thrombolytic therapies may be administered in the 3-h window post ischaemic stroke, is an example of subspecialty care otherwise unavailable to rural patients. 14 Similarly, telemedicine applications have been used to enhance the provision of emergency cardiac care.…”