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Telemedicine Case Study

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Telemedicine is becoming more familiar concept and provide a boom for Indian health care sector. It has the ability to fill the gap between demand of healthcare services and limited manpower and infrastructure in healthcare, especially for people residing in remote and rural areas. Punjab state is geographically and economically diversified. The state already has been passing through various problems such as rapidly increasing population, lack of sufficient transportation, illiteracy and low budget for healthcare. In such as scenario, the telemedicine has emerged as life line for serve the people at large. Easy accessibility and highly economical in nature are bagged into the merit list of telemedicine services. The present study aimed to …show more content…

4. Challenges of Telemedicine
The Telemedicine is at toddler stage and has not established as independent faculty. The various centre were setup to provide healthcare facilities through telemedicine. But various difficulties are being faced by the practitioners some of them which are more dominant are discussed below as:
• Lack of confidence among doctors: Some doctors themselves are not fully convinced about the results of Tele-consultations. They hesitate to ask for expert opinion from their colleagues and friends. The excessive delay in response time makes the situation worse.
• Lack of confidence among Patients: The confidence of patient in outcome of Tele-consultation is very weak. They still prefer to get treatment by visiting doctor personally.

• Lack of Financial support: Implementation of TM technology costs too high. Without cooperation from private sector such heavy investment seems unfeasible.
• Poor basic amenities in rural areas: In India, majority of population lives below the poverty line. The basic amenities like electricity, safe drinking water, primary medical facilities, telecommunication, safe drinking water etc. are missing particularly in the rural areas. To implement TM basic amenities are

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