Telemedicine in India: The Apollo Story

Ganapathy, Krishnan; Ravindra, Aditi

doi:10.1089/tmj.2009.0066

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“…Today, with 115 centers including 9 overseas, the Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation (ATNF) is the oldest and largest multispecialty telemedicine network. 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.…”

Section: Tele-diabetology In Screening Diabetes and Associated Complimentioning

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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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Section: Tele-diabetology In Screening Diabetes and Associated Complimentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Mohan

Prathiba

Pradeepa

2014

J Diabetes Sci Technol

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“…Since then Aragonda Apollo telemedicine center and Hospital has been the cornerstone case study model for the entire telemedicine healthcare industry. Today ATNF has emerged as India's single largest private healthcare provider in the area of Telemedicine with over 125 peripheral centers in India and 10 overseas [30].…”

Section: Involvement Of Private Enterprise In the Field Of Telemedicimentioning

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“…Currently all the telemedicine specialty centers located at the tertiary care facilities of Apollo Hospitals are in big cities such as Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Bangalore and Madurai are linked to telemedicine nodal centers all over India through variety of internet connectivity protocols such as VSAT, Integrated Services Digital Network line, internet protocol, or broadband internet [30,31]. More than 69,000 tele-consultations were provided by ATNF till May 2011, through the telemedicine specialty centers located at the Apollo tertiary care facilities [30,31].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There are many studies which have shown that telemedicine can substantially improve acute stroke care [37][38][39]. Most of the work in the field of neurology in telemedicine in India has been done by Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation and includes continuing medical education of health professionals and tele-consultations [30].…”

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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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“…OISE-0730065. [11]. Remote diagnosis and health-care advice can be administered to rural and disaster areas in this manner.…”

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How are you feeling? A social network model to monitor the health of post-operative patients

Mulcahy

Huang

Cao

et al. 2011

2011 IEEE International Systems Conference

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Abstract-Mobile devices and cloud computing platforms have become increasing popular in recent years, as more ways in which to adopt these technologies to existing business and research models have been envisioned and implemented. What started as simply providing bandwidth and technology to mobile users in order to browse the internet from handheld devices now allows entire websites to be hosted on remote cloud platforms. Users now have the ability to trade and track stock market data from anywhere and anytime, automatically communicate data from wearable medical sensor devices, avoid vehicle collisions, track freight shipments, and a plethora of other applications.Healthcare is an area where the leveraging of these new technologies has the ability to have worldwide impact, with many exciting possibilities. However, much of the current focus is on more -doctor-centric‖ uses rather than -patient-centric‖ ones. The use of mobile devices to automatically sense and transmit data from the patient, devices to aid in dictation and communication within hospital settings, and cloud products to store patient data and other solutions help make the tasks of physicians easier, but do not necessarily improve the care given to the patient. There are bandwidth concerns, security concerns and the general cyberphobia that consumers commonly have with sharing personal information. This paper proposes a different type of solution that is more related to a social networking environment in which many people are already comfortable using. It concentrates on the collection of data from patients during a period of time that they are often suffering the most -after initial post-operative release from a hospital or clinic. It first explores technologies that are currently in use, and then describes a different model that allows the patient to control what information is being shared, who is allowed to consume this data, and how it might enhance the well-being of those that may make use of this new paradigm.

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Telemedicine in India: The Apollo Story

Cited by 51 publications

References 5 publications

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

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

Evolving Role of Telemedicine in Health Care Delivery in India

How are you feeling? A social network model to monitor the health of post-operative patients

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