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Tele-medicine application launches in rural India

By Crystal Low | 23 June 2009

The Indian government has launched a tele-medicine tool it hopes will enhance healthcare outreach to rural parts of India.

The tool, called the ‘e-Sanjeevani,’ is a piece of web-based tele-medicine software that enables remote diagnostics and tele-counselling.

The software is to be deployed as a cost effective tele-medicine tool in 100,000 Common Service Centres (CSC) that are being set up as part of the country’s National e-Governance Plan.

Through this initiative a large number of villagers will be able to have their health records available in electronic form, accessible anytime, anywhere. Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) with minimum training in handling ECG machines and other devices will be able to handle medical equipment co-located at the CSCs.

The e-Sanjeevani facilitates the creation of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) for a variety of diagnostic reports, for example ECG, pathological reports, and radiological examinations (X-ray, CT Scan, MRI). Patient records are secured through encryption.

A highlight of the tool is that it enables multipoint, multi referral consultation, as well as one-to-one consultation between patient to doctor and doctor to doctor. The programme also enables anywhere, anytime access with no installation cost to the user.

CSCs are front-end delivery platforms that enable government, private and social sector organisations to align their social and commercial goals for the benefit of the rural population through a combination of IT-based as well as non-IT-based services.

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