Teleradiology Can Help Needy In Rural Areas of India
There’s been so much news of teleradiology outsourcing to India - US hospitals and practices using radiologists based in India - it’s easy to ignore the use of teleradiology within the country.
In a country with only 6,000 radiologists, the use of teleradiology can expand the availability of quality health-care to outlying areas.
Kalam urges for using tele-radiology to help rural poor
India’s President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Friday called for taking advantage of the benefits of digital imaging as a diagnostic tool and of tele-radiology to help the needy in rural areas in a cost-effective manner.He was speaking during a visit to the digital radiology centre at Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), which is working towards providing low cost digital radiography equipment and electronic medical records systems with tele-radiology facility.
Kalam urges for using tele-radiology to help rural poor - Yahoo! India News
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Friday called for taking advantage of the benefits of digital imaging as a diagnostic tool and of tele-radiology to help the needy in rural areas in a cost-effective manner.He was speaking during a visit to the digital radiology centre at Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), which is working towards providing low cost digital radiography equipment and electronic medical records systems with tele-radiology facility.
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Written by David on July 1st, 2007 with
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#1. September 20th, 2007, at 2:53 AM.
I bring to your attention our work–
Now that the old debate versus a Radiologist on hand verus a remote teleradiologist seems to be getting over and the role of teleradiology is increasingly getting defined. Here are a few cases where our radiologists from Teleradiology Providers read emergency cases sent from a remote rural centre in India where finding a cross sectional imaging trained radiologist was difficult. We further emphasize that most of the cases were blunt trauma (as it was located near the highway) where immediate reports were given and clinical management was affected by the reports given by our radiologists. This is one of the first report from an Indian setting. We from Teleradiology Providers further emphasize the role of teleradiology in country like India is unmatched. In our country we have a divide between the rural and urban practise and finding a well trained specialist is almost impossible to find in rural settings. With increasing availablity of Internet and phones remote specialist radiologist can easily become a part of team.
In our experience we included telephonic discussions with the operating surgeon and the CT technician so that we could discuss the protocol and surgical approach. At no point did anybody from the hospital feel that our radiologists were not easily available. Teleradiology Providers is a part of the team.