Telemedicine and tele-health services for cancer-care delivery in India

Sudhamony, S.; Nandakumar, Krishna S.; Binu, P.J.; Niwas, S. Issac

doi:10.1049/iet-com:20060701

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“…52 As such, web-based telehealth software may be developed to create and store the electronic medical record of the patients. 53 This software can be installed in kala-azar research centers, district hospitals, and remote public health centers. Using this software, the physicians can quickly add notes on the patients' progress, create reports, give advice to the rural health workers and patients gain the line of treatment from the specialists, and so on.…”

Section: Telehealth -A Health Solution For a Neglected Disease (Vl)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Telehealth: a perspective approach for visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) control in India

Bhunia¹,

Kesari²,

Chatterjee³

et al. 2012

Pathogens and Global Health

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Visceral leishmaniasis, also known as kala-azar, is a vector borne disease caused by the protozoan parasite, L. donovani. Poor and neglected populations in Indian sub-continent are particularly affected by this disease. Due to the diversity of epidemiological situations, no single diagnosis, treatment, or control will be suitable for all. Control measures through case findings, treatment, and vector control are seldom used, even where they could be useful. Modern tools like telehealth, using space technology, have now come in handy to address issues of disease surveillance, control checking, and evaluation. The present study focuses on telehealth as a current vector control strategy, perspectives on diagnosis, treatment, and control of visceral leishmaniasis as these deserve more attention and research.

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Section: Telehealth -A Health Solution For a Neglected Disease (Vl)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Telehealth: a perspective approach for visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) control in India

Bhunia¹,

Kesari²,

Chatterjee³

et al. 2012

Pathogens and Global Health

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“…India's creditable use of telemedicine early gives it an edge. It is important to capitalize on the successful implementation of projects like Onconet Kerala and ISRO/ NEC projects in northeastern states of India [20, [24][25][26]. At present the challenge is to integrate telemedicine nodal centers all across the country and utilize the services of these centers in the field of public health, especially in the area of maternal and child health.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Kerala Oncology Network (Onconet -Kerala) telemedicine project has been successfully completed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing and Regional Cancer Center in Trivandrum. Its main aim was to explore the role of telemedicine in early detection of cancer, its treatment, pain management and follow-up services [24,25]. This project, launched in 2001 also included the creation of a web enabled Hospital Information System 'TEJHAS' (Telemedicine Enabled Java based Hospital Automation System) -an electronic database of patient's medical records, easily accessible to all the medical centers in the region [24,25].…”

Section: Telemedicine In Health Care Delivery In India and Its Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Evolving Role of Telemedicine in Health Care Delivery in India

Mathur¹,

Srivastava²,

Lalch³

et al. 2017

Primary Health Care

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Introduction: India is the world's largest democratic country, and second most populous country in the world. Despite recent successes in the economic front, India still faces many social challenges like poverty, illiteracy, sanitation, gender inequality, and lack of healthcare for all. The healthcare disparity is mainly due to shortage of trained health care professionals and lack of necessary infrastructure in remote areas of the country. Telemedicine as a tool for health care delivery, particularly in the rural areas where 68% of the population lives, has been addressed by the Government of India since the turn of the century using telemedicine. Telemedicine as a method of healthcare delivery has been successfully tested all over the country, and the results have been very promising.Methods: Literature search was done on Medline, Web of science and Google search engines using keywordstelemedicine, India model of health care delivery. Results:We found that telemedicine as a healthcare delivery system has been effectively used in several underserved areas of India, through the initiatives taken by the federal, state governments as well as private sector. Conclusion:Although not a substitute for traditional healthcare system, telemedicine can be used to overcome healthcare disparities in the underserved areas. This approach for healthcare delivery can be replicated around the world, especially in the developing countries

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“…The authors in (Pavlopoulos et al, 1998) have presented an example of telemedicine advantage through implementation on ambulatory patient care at remote area. Another application has been done in (Sudhamony et al, 2008) for cancer care in rural area. High technology telemedicine application in surgery has already been developed in (Xiaohui et al, 2007).…”

Section: Telemedicinementioning

confidence: 99%