Title :
Advances in Telemedicine and Its Usage in India
Author_Institution :
Indian Inst. of Technol., Kharagpur
Abstract :
Telemedicine development has proliferated in several countries, including India, in the last decade. With the advances in information and communication technology, there has been substantial improvement in the quality of healthcare services that can be offered for dealing with different category of diseases. This paper looks into the technological issues that are of prime concern in the growth of telemedicine services and presents a brief review of some of the telemedicine projects successfully executed in India.
Keywords :
health care; information technology; telemedicine; healthcare services; information and communication technology; telemedicine; Biomedical imaging; Cardiac disease; Cardiovascular diseases; Clinical diagnosis; Communications technology; Computer science; Costs; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Telemedicine;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Computing and Communications, 2007. ADCOM 2007. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Guwahati, Assam
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-3059-1
DOI :
10.1109/ADCOM.2007.124
