It won’t be an exaggeration when I say that the medical field is the only industry in India that is fully utilizing the Internet to its optimum potential.
Read this dramatic event that saved a sick child from Arunachal Pradesh in India where top notch medical facilities are sparse.
· * A sick child was wheeled in at a hospital in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh,
· * The complaint: Gasping for breath.
· * Call to action: A CT scan
· * Diagnosis: Alas! There was no radiologist available at the hospital to interpret the images
· * Next action: . The scan images were emailed to a Teleradiology reporting center in Bangalore.
· * Observation: A large abscess in the throat that is blocking the child’s airway.
· * Call to action: Emergency surgery
· * Result: The child survived.
See how the Internet was able to break the geographical barriers. Telemedicine and Teleradiology are going to save millions of lives in future.
Why not let us thank the inventors of Internet without which communication between persons would still be travelling in bullock cart.
Villages don’t attract highly qualified doctors for obvious reasons. Therefore, a local doctor can still accurately diagnose and appropriately treat every medical condition without the physical presence of a specialist locally.
Telemedicine is the only field that was readily and widely accepted without any raise eyebrows from traditionalists. This technology advancement saw doctors quickly embrace it for the benefit patients in far slung areas.
Times Of India rightly pointed out an example: A rural primary care practitioner who treats a patient with diabetic retinopathy, for example, can get expert consultation from an opthalmologist at a centre hundreds of miles away.
I would like to quote Dr Arjun Kalyanpur practicing in Bangalore: “Teleradiology is an IT-enabled service, whereby X-Ray, ultrasound, CAT scan, MRI and even PET scan images can be transferred, using broadband connectivity to a distant location for interpretation by specialists.”
Soutce: norbert.rego@timesgroup.com
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