• DocumentCode
    2710905
  • Title

    Advances in Telemedicine and Its Usage in India

  • Author

    Majumdar, A.K.

  • Author_Institution
    Indian Inst. of Technol., Kharagpur
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    18-21 Dec. 2007
  • Firstpage
    101
  • Lastpage
    109
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Computing and Communications, 2007. ADCOM 2007. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Guwahati, Assam
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-3059-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ADCOM.2007.124
  • Filename
    4425958