Proposed deployments to provide E-healthcare in Bangladesh: Urban and rural perspectives

E-healthcare or telemedicine applications are being widely deployed across the globe to provide healthcare to remote locations. This paper proposes E-healthcare deployments at the patient side that target urban and rural population in Bangladesh. In this regard, the paper addresses the existing healthcare facilities and socio-economic condition of these two population categories to identify the potential telemedicine applications. The core of the proposed deployments is a generic E-healthcare unit that is amenable to different requirements in different deployment scenarios. Provisions for individual and group deployments are discussed for both rural and urban scenarios. These deployments take into consideration the existing nationwide telecommunication infrastructure and services. The proposed deployments show that a customized E-healthcare solution can easily be developed for individuals or groups availing the existing array of telemedicine devices and the telecommunication link.