Conceptually telemedicine can effectively solve many challenges that are facing the healthcare industry today. Telemedicine overcomes distance & time barriers between health-care providers, can really solve the problem on unavailability of physicians in underserved areas and reduce the cost of healthcare. Despite its promise, telemedicine applications have not achieved significant levels of success and are yet come into the mainstream. In both developed and developing countries, telemedicine has yet to be consistently employed in the health care system to deliver routine services, and few pilot projects have been able to sustain themselves once initial seed funding has ended. Legal considerations and lack of clear guidelines are a major obstacle to telemedicine uptake. These include: An absence of a clear national as well as international legal framework to allow health professionals to deliver services in different jurisdictions; ` Overlapping, inconsistent and inadequate
HOW TELEHEALTH IS TRANSFORMING THE RURAL HEALTHCARE Almost all of us have heard that Internet has transformed the modern life. Yes, indeed! It has changed the ways in which we stay in touch with our families and friends, purchase and sell goods and also the way we look for information about various things including healthcare! Telehealth involves using a broad range of digital information and communication technologies such as computers and mobile devices for the delivery of health services and health information over both long and short distances. It also aims at improving the healthcare delivery system as a whole. India is a developing country and is moving forward at a fast pace in the area of technology. These advancements have triggered the concern of whether technology can help the country bring about a change in its existing healthcare ecosystem. While big hospitals and healthcare centres in urban areas may boast of high-end technologies, the semi urban an