Hospitals in remote locations, unable to staff intensive care units, are already using technology to assist doctors to monitor patients remotely 24 hours a day.The proposal could increase access to doctors to people in rural areas. It could also allow people with complex illnesses or rare diseases to easily consult specialists in cities using telemedicine technologies, which connect a patient in one location with doctors in another.The society is planning to do master health checks and help doctors in the PHCs detect diseases early, according to officials. CHENNAI: Doctors representing medical colleges in Tamil Nadu will draft guidelines that would make it much easier for them to teach students online and via videoconferencing.The guidelines, representing the biggest change in medical education in decades, opens the door to greater use of telemedicine and could alleviate the shortage of teaching doctors, a growing problem in most medical colleges in the state.Experts from different institutions such as Apollo Hospitals, Ramachandra Medical University, Sankara Nethralaya and Arvind Eye Hospitals have started the state chapter of the Telemedicine Society of India, which will be inaugurated on February 23.The advanced technology in both medicine and communication has given doctors the confidence to trust telemedicine, said TN society president Dr K Selvakumar, a neurosurgeon at Sri Ramachandra University.Telemedicine has the potential to improve quality of care by allowing clinicians, particularly specialists, in one hospital to monitor, consult and even care for and perform procedures on patients in distant locations.A rural primary care practitioner who sees a patient with abnormal heartbeat, for example, can get expert consultation from a cardiologist at a centre hundreds of miles away.
CHENNAI: Doctors representing medical colleges in Tamil Nadu will draft guidelines that would make it much easier for them to teach students online and via videoconferencing.The guidelines, representing the biggest change in medical education in decades, opens the door to greater use of telemedicine and could alleviate the shortage of teaching doctors, a growing problem in most medical colleges in the state.Experts from different institutions such as Apollo Hospitals, Ramachandra Medical University, Sankara Nethralaya and Arvind Eye Hospitals have started the state chapter of the Telemedicine Society of India, which will be inaugurated on February 23.The advanced technology in both medicine and communication has given doctors the confidence to trust telemedicine, said TN society president Dr K Selvakumar, a neurosurgeon at Sri Ramachandra University.Telemedicine has the potential to improve quality of care by allowing clinicians, particularly specialists, in one hospital to monitor, consult and even care for and perform procedures on patients in distant locations.A rural primary care practitioner who sees a patient with abnormal heartbeat, for example, can get expert consultation from a cardiologist at a centre hundreds of miles away. Hospitals in remote locations, unable to staff intensive care units, are already using technology to assist doctors to monitor patients remotely 24 hours a day.The proposal could increase access to doctors to people in rural areas. It could also allow people with complex illnesses or rare diseases to easily consult specialists in cities using telemedicine technologies, which connect a patient in one location with doctors in another.The society is planning to do master health checks and help doctors in the PHCs detect diseases early, according to officials.
Date: February 18, 2016
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