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Emerging Trends of Telemedicine in India


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1 Department of Management Studies, Bharath University, Selaiyur, Chennai-600073, India
 

Telemedicine could be a generic term that is employed to outline numerous aspects of health care at a distance. In its long term application, telemedicine may be outlined because the use of telecommunication technologies to supply medical data and services. The key facet of telemedicine is that the use of electronic signals to transfer data from one website to a different. Telemedicine is turning into most recognized as bearing on remote clinical care and consultation through the utilization of electronic imaging instrumentality. By exploitation Telemedicine technologies and a well-planned timeline, the AMEDD (Army Medical Department) has with success drawn down its hospital complement from one hundred sixty five hospitals to simply sixty two hospitals within the force structure-a sixty two decrease. Telemedicine services that integrate electronic medical records will decrease the quantity of cases wherever doctors cannot access patient's records. In line with the Institute of medication, concerning half-hour of physicians couldn't have accessed their patient's files in existing non-telemedicine systems and seventieth of the records were incomplete.

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Utilisation, Importance, Services in Health Care, Relevance
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G. Brindha
Department of Management Studies, Bharath University, Selaiyur, Chennai-600073, India

Abstract


Telemedicine could be a generic term that is employed to outline numerous aspects of health care at a distance. In its long term application, telemedicine may be outlined because the use of telecommunication technologies to supply medical data and services. The key facet of telemedicine is that the use of electronic signals to transfer data from one website to a different. Telemedicine is turning into most recognized as bearing on remote clinical care and consultation through the utilization of electronic imaging instrumentality. By exploitation Telemedicine technologies and a well-planned timeline, the AMEDD (Army Medical Department) has with success drawn down its hospital complement from one hundred sixty five hospitals to simply sixty two hospitals within the force structure-a sixty two decrease. Telemedicine services that integrate electronic medical records will decrease the quantity of cases wherever doctors cannot access patient's records. In line with the Institute of medication, concerning half-hour of physicians couldn't have accessed their patient's files in existing non-telemedicine systems and seventieth of the records were incomplete.

Keywords


Utilisation, Importance, Services in Health Care, Relevance

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17485/ijst%2F2013%2Fv6iS5%2F33357