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Addressing reporters through teleconference from Regensburg University in Germany, he said low cost products could promote telemedicine in a big way.

Health Minister V.S. Sivakumar said on January 23 that the Kerala state government would invest INR 960 million and the central government will bag the remaining of the project cost—INR 870 million (US$ 16.17 million), making the total of INR 1.83 billion (US$34 million).

Health Minister V.S. Sivakumar said on January 23, that the state government will allocate INR960 million (US$17.85 million), while the central government will bag the remaining of the project cost—INR870 million (US$16.17 million).

Afghan Minister for Public Health Syed Mohammad Amin Fatimi and Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan Jayant Prasad signed the MOU on behalf of their respective governments.

While the Indian project, dubbed e-Network, is equipped to support tele-education, e-governance, e-commerce, infotainment and resource mapping, the Japanese project is focused on tele-education and e-governance.

Introduction of smart cards in the Rashtriya Swasthaya Bima Yojna (RSBY) scheme has led to empowerment of citizens by effectively preventing denial of services to rightful recipients and a regular evaluation of this scheme was needed for its sustained growth, speakers at a summit here opined.

The first ever summit on ‘Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana’ (RSBY) – a joint initiative of Smart Card Forum of India (SCAFI) and the Government of India was held on Wednesday here.

This will be preceded by the establishment of a department of telemedicine in the varsity, which will also be the first such department in a medical university, Dr. Hussain claimed.

Vishal Bali, CEO, Fortis Hospitals, says, “Mobile healthcare can usher in the next revolution in the healthcare industry. Bandwidth won’t be a constraint anymore.” The group is already offering telemedicine services and is keen to use the new technology to connect its superspecialists in metros with patients in remote locations.

To say that telemedicine is modern healthcare’s new frontier would be an understatement. Essentially it is a means of facilitating the distribution of professional competencies and medicinal resources; it can speed up diagnosis and therapeutic care delivery and allow peripheral and healthcare providers to receive continuous assistance from specialized centers.

Cellphones do more than keep you connected; they also keep tabs on your health. The state government recently unveiled an SMS-based Project Jeevandainee to keep track of pregnancy among women living in Wardha's remote tracts. In Mumbai, entrepreneurs have already introduced a series of SMS-based programmes to keep a check on, among other diseases, diabetes and infertility.

No satellite connections, no high definition tele-presence screens, his telemedicine facility consists of a digital camera, a computer with Microsoft Excel, a dial-up internet connection and a Gmail account.

This service is launched by Honorable Minister for Health Shri DANAM NAGENDER GARU on the eve of world heart day 26th september.

The service will provide a first time telephonic medical consultation, where doctors will diagnose a patient’s problems over the phone. At any point during the consultation if the doctor feels the patient need an expert opinion, immediately his call will be transferred to an specialist of choice.

"We have already set up a connection between C-DAC's PARAM Yuva supercomputer and caBIG" and plan to take our telemedicine technologies to national level. To do this, we will also have to move towards petascale and exascale computing. The ultimate objective will not only be limited to cancer but include other diseases as well," said Darbari.

To begin with, Manimajra and Sector-22 community health centres would be connected to Government Multispecialty Hospital (GMH), Sector 16 for the telemedicine programme.

In his address at the Third National Conference of the Telemedicine Society of India (TSI) and 12th International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (ISfTeH) Conference here on Saturday, he recollected that his Government had sanctioned Rs 87 lakh in 1999 to implement a pilot project in telemedicine in Government General Hospital here.

In the last six years, thanks to the relentless work done by several groups of committed champions of telemedicine like Apollo Hospitals, a beginning has been made. Patients can now be examined, investigated, monitored and treated, with the patient and the doctor located in different places. Expertise, not the patient, is transferred using telecommunications and IT. Unnecessary traveling is eliminated. Patients do not have to come back for review to the metros. These can be done at the comfort of the nearest telemedicine center.

In the last six years, thanks to the relentless work done by several groups of committed champions of telemedicine like Apollo Hospitals, a beginning has been made. Patients can now be examined, investigated, monitored and treated, with the patient and the doctor located in different places.

The web-based software — e-Sanjeevani — that facilitates creation of an electronic medical record (EMR) for a variety of diagnostic reports is being deployed as a cost-effective telemedicine tool for rural areas at over one lakh CSCs being set up as part of the National e-Governance Plan.

The service, a joint effort by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, will connect the hospital's cancer specialists to patients in rural areas.

ISRO has agreed to provide a free satellite link for the mobile unit.

It's for the first time in north India that Isro will provide free satellite links to mobile vans. The data collected (about patients) from medical equipment fitted in the vans will be digitalised and sent to experts in Ganga Ram Hospital. The experts will record the details and forward it to the local administration and also suggest remedial measures.