1. Healing Touch Through Space
Dr. Suhail Choudhary
COO Teledoctors @ Mercy Mission India.
teledoctors.india@gmail.com

2. Tele-Medicine:
Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication
and information technologies in order to provide
clinical health care at a distance.
It helps eliminate distance barriers and can
improve access to medical services that would
often not be consistently available in distant
rural communities.
It is also used to save lives in critical
care and emergency situations.

3. Enabling Specialty Healthcare to the Rural
and Remote Population of India.
Telemedicine/Tele-health is of great social
relevance to the country for enabling
Specialty Healthcare to the remote, rural
and underserved population.

4. TYPES OF TELEMEDICINE:
Telemedicine can be broken into
3 main categories:
1. STORE & FORWARD
2. REMOTE MONITORING &
3. (REAL-TIME) INTERACTIVE SERVICES

5. MAJOR AREAS OF TELEMEDICINE
TECHNOLOGY ADOPTED:
• Tele-consultation , Tele-diagnosis ,Tele-treatment-
(The patient with the local doctor consults the specialist, obtains the
line of treatment).
• Tele-education , Tele-training -
(For Continuing Medical Education, Training for doctors & paramedics
from a higher level Hospital/Institution).
• Tele-monitoring-
( Regular monitoring for intensive care & emergency care).
• Tele-support- (Support during disaster management).

6. BENEFITS & USES:
Telemedicine can be extremely beneficial for people living in
isolated communities and remote regions and is currently being
applied in virtually all medical domains. Patients who live in such
areas can be seen by a doctor or specialist, who can provide an
accurate and complete examination, while the patient may not
have to travel or wait the normal distances or times like those
from conventional hospital or GP visits. Recent developments
in mobile collaboration technology with the use of hand-held
mobile devices allow healthcare professionals in multiple
locations the ability to view, discuss and assess patient issues
as if they were in the same room.

7. OTHER USES:
Telemedicine can be used as a teaching tool, by which experienced
medical staff can observe, show and instruct medical staff in
another location, more effective or faster examination techniques.
It improved access to healthcare for patients in remote locations.
"Telemedicine has been shown to reduce the cost of healthcare and
increase efficiency through better management of chronic
diseases,shared health professional staffing, reduced travel times,
and fewer or shorter hospital stays." Several studies have
documented increase patient satisfaction of telemedicine over past
fifteen years.

8. CONCEPT:

9. TELEMEDICINE PERIPHERALS:

10. CALL CENTRE:

11. SPEACIALIST CARE DELIVERY:
*Tele-cardiology *Tele-psychiatry
*Tele-radiology *Tele-pathology
*Tele-dermatology *Tele-dentistry
*Tele-audiology *Tele-ophthalmology
*Tele-oncology *Tele-neurology

12. ADVANCED & EXPERIMENTAL SERVICES:
TELESURGERY (UNASSISTED ROBOTIC SURGERY)
Remote surgery (also known as telesurgery) is the ability for a doctor
to perform surgery on a patient even though they are not physically
in the same location. It is a form of telepresence. Remote surgery
combines elements of robotics, cutting edge communication
technology such as high-speed data connections and elements
of management information systems. While the field of robotic
surgery is fairly well established, most of these robots are controlled
by surgeons at the location of the surgery.
Remote surgery is essentially advanced telecommuting for surgeons,
where the physical distance between the surgeon and the patient is
immaterial. It promises to allow the expertise of specialized surgeons
to be available to patients worldwide, without the need for patients
to travel beyond their local hospital.

13. HISTORY:
The first interactive telemedicine system,
operating over standard telephone lines, for
remotely diagnosing and treating patients
requiring cardiac resuscitation (defibrillation) was
developed and marketed by MedPhone
Corporation in 1989 under the leadership of its
president and founder, S.Eric Wachtel. A year
later the company introduced a mobile cellular
version, the MDphone. Twelve hospitals in the
U.S. served as receiving and treatment centers.

14. THE ULTIMATE BENEFICIARY:

16. TELEMEDICINE CARTS:

17. CONCLUSION:
• Teledoctors is:
– Extending quality healthcare where its needed most
– Filling an acute health service vacuum
– Creating direct influence on over millions of people
– Creating high value rural employment
– Building out a proven TeleMedicine infrastructure
– Integrating medical / electronic / telecom
technologies
– Investing heavily in project it believes in
– Changing the healthcare ecosystem of India and
presenting a model to the world

18. WORKING TOWARDS MASTERY
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Projects Worked On
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Experienced
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Time Spent

19. THE TECNOLOGY LEARNING CURVE:
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20. THANKS!