The Sankara Nethralaya Mobile Teleophthalmology Model for Comprehensive Eye Care Delivery in Rural India

John, Sheila; Sengupta, Sabyasachi; Reddy, Sumanth; Prabhu, Pearlson; Kirubanandan, Krishan; Badrinath, SS

doi:10.1089/tmj.2011.0190

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“…19,20 Pockets of electronic referral already exist within ophthalmology globally. 21,22 Furthermore, electronic referral has been shown to have lower startup costs than conventional services. 23 This may hold even greater benefit for developing countries and regions with geographically dispersed populations.…”

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Using electronic referral with digital imaging between primary and secondary ophthalmic services: a long term prospective analysis of regional service redesign

Borooah

Grant

Blaikie

et al. 2012

Eye

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Purpose Demands on publicly funded ophthalmic services worldwide continue to increase with new treatments, waiting time targets, working time limits, and restricted budgets. These highlight the necessity to develop innovative ways of utilising existing capacity more effectively. Method A new regional, fully electronic ophthalmic-referral service with digital imaging was trialled using existing information-technology (IT) infrastructure.

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Using electronic referral with digital imaging between primary and secondary ophthalmic services: a long term prospective analysis of regional service redesign

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Blaikie

et al. 2012

Eye

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“…15 The Sankara Nethralaya and the Aravind Eye Hospitals in Tamilnadu and the Tripura Vision Centre in Tripura also have successfully used telemedicine to screen for eye diseases (Tele-Ophthalmology) in rural regions of India in the general population. [16][17][18][19] In the study conducted by Sankara Nethralaya between April 2009 and September 2010, 54 751 patients underwent evaluation at 872 camps across 4 states in India. During this period, uncorrected refractive error was found to be the commonest cause of avoidable blindness (59%), followed by cataract (30%).…”

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Tele-diabetology to Screen for Diabetes and Associated Complications in Rural India

Mohan

Prathiba

Pradeepa

2014

J Diabetes Sci Technol

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Diabetes, with its acute and long-term complications, has become a major health hazard in developing countries. An estimated 62.4 million people in India have diabetes. With increasing urbanization and industrialization, we can expect huge numbers of people with diabetes in India in the future. Moreover, all diabetes efforts in India are currently focused in urban areas while 70% of India's population actually lives in rural areas. The current statistics demonstrates that urgent interventions are mandatory to curb the epidemic of diabetes and its complications at the grassroots level. This gap in providing diabetes care can be nullified by the use of tele-diabetology. This holds great potential to overcome barriers and improve quality and access to diabetes care to remote, underserved areas of developing counties. The Chunampet Rural Diabetes Prevention Project (CRDPP) has been developed and tested as a successful model for screening and delivering diabetes care to rural areas in developing countries. Using a tele-diabetology mobile van loaded with appropriate equipment, trained technicians, and satellite technology helped us to screen for diabetes and its complications and deliver diabetes care to remote villages in southern India. The Chunampet model can be applied in reaching out to remote areas where specialized diabetes care facilities may not be available.

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“…Similarly application of telemedicine in ophthalmology has been successfully implemented in India by Sankar Nethralaya and Aravind Eye Hospital in Chennai in the southern state of Tamil Nadu [43][44][45][46]. John et al treated over 54,751 patients by organizing telemedicine camps across four states in India [45].…”

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“…John et al treated over 54,751 patients by organizing telemedicine camps across four states in India [45]. They found that uncorrected refractive error was the commonest cause of avoidable blindness (59%), followed by cataract (30%).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They found that uncorrected refractive error was the commonest cause of avoidable blindness (59%), followed by cataract (30%). The other diseases include retinal diseases (3.3%), mainly diabetic retinopathy and corneal diseases (1%) [45]. Presently Teleophthalmology has been firmly established as a healthcare delivery system by various projects in rural India [43][44][45][46].…”

Section: Involvement Of Private Enterprise In the Field Of Telemedicimentioning

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 Sankara Nethralaya Mobile Teleophthalmology Model for Comprehensive Eye Care Delivery in Rural India

Abstract: Comprehensive eye camps utilizing a mobile teleophthalmology unit appears to be a very useful tool to improve eye care delivery in the developing world.

Cited by 58 publications

References 14 publications

Using electronic referral with digital imaging between primary and secondary ophthalmic services: a long term prospective analysis of regional service redesign

Using electronic referral with digital imaging between primary and secondary ophthalmic services: a long term prospective analysis of regional service redesign

Tele-diabetology to Screen for Diabetes and Associated Complications in Rural India

Evolving Role of Telemedicine in Health Care Delivery in India

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