Rajasthan: Retired defence doctors to provide online consultation

Telemedicine is changing healthcare and saving lives in India

Thanks to telemedicine which enables treating patients remotely, there is a new horizon in the public health domain of Ind

UP: 'E-Sanjeevani' launched at medical college in Prayagraj

Companies take Covid relief initiatives for employees

Accenture said they have built several resources including 24/7 telemedicine services, care-at-home services etc.

Lack of medical experts: Dhanvantari Covid Care hospital turns to telemedicine, visiting consultants to meet shortage

Odisha launches telemedicine services as Covid cases rise

The Odisha government has launched telemedicine services for people under home isolation, battling to contain the sharp spike in Covid-19 cases and meet the rising demand for beds in hospitals. It has also advised people not to come to hospitals looking for beds until and unless the situation demands so. Secretary, health and family welfare, P.K. Mohapatra said: “We have launched the telemedicine for management of the Covid-19 pandemic situation. The tele service is now available in all the

Bihar doctor claims 'D-LAMP' has cured over 6,000 people of COVID-19 at home – know about the initiative

Cyberabad Police Launch Telemedicine Consultation for Covid Patients.The Cyberabad police have collaborated with the Society for Cyberabad Security Council and pooled in help from 20 specialist doctor

Indian Medical Association launches Telemedicine Helpline in Meerut District magistrate of Meerut K Balaji has thanked IMA Meerut for the telemedicine initiative via his tweet.

Telemedicine service launched by govt The crisis is deepening as on an average, six persons are being infected every minute in Odisha.

Doctors in UK get telemedicine, virtual ward rounds project going for India

Indian-American doctors launch telemedicine helpline for Covid-19 patients.

Avail Telemedicine Service Of AIIMS Bhubaneswar; Know Phone Numbers

Pakistani-American Healthcare Company VeeMed Offers Telehealth Solutions to Government of India as COVID Cases Continue to Surge

With Delhi’s health-care system stretched thin, tele consultation services hit

Hospitals turn Covid hotspots, experts advise caution

In the wake of Covid scenario worsening, experts have urged people to avoid unnecessary visits to hospitals and utilise telemedicine facility as much as possible

The Covid-19 challenge in India

Use of telemedicine and digital healthcare for eligible patients will ease the burden on stretched resources.

World Innovation Day: How a healthcare crisis is fostering new ideas and forcing research-culture change

PM Modi reviews Public Health Response to COVID-19 with nation’s leading doctors

Integrated system starts to monitor Covid patients, ease admission process

UP not to shut industrial units during weekend lockdown, says CM

General OPD operations will be suspended in government hospitals, barring emergency and essential services. Telemedicines will be encouraged, with widespread promotion and publicising of the 'e-Sanjeevani' app. In order to enable more and more people to take advantage of telemedicines, the names of doctors, specialists etc will be duly publicised

Telemedicine in Ganjam district soon

Sree Chitra restricts OP, switches to telemedicine

No option but to fight battle against Corona –CM Shri Chouhan

There is provision to provide medical kit to the affected persons and keep in touch with doctors through telemedicine.

Meenakshi Mission Hospital Becomes India’s First Hospital To Introduce Telemedicine Robots

NITI Aayog Releases Report: Investment Opportunities in India’s Healthcare Sector

No words enough to express gratitude towards corona warriors: Health Minister Harsh Vardhan

PM Modi to inaugurate super specialty hospital at IIT Kharagpur today

Nitish Kumar launches telemedicine, digital health services

Adityanath seeks proposal on using drones to transport medicines to remote areas

How telemedicine is silently making India’s healthcare ecosystem future-ready

Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation across sectors: Satya Nadella

CLIRNET TeleMed Lite launched

Home health care services on rise in Covid-19 pandemic: Experts

Odisha doctors working abroad form global group to help people

Free diagnostic services to urban poor in Telangana

In Covid Times, Telemedicine Can Revolutionise Cancer Care

IIT Guwahati student team develops digital health system for remote health check-ups in Covid-19 era

The challenge is to identify a focus area from Telehealth & Telemedicine; Digital Therapeutics & New Business Models; Tech-Led Innovations; Healthcare Analysis; mHealth, and Billing & Fitness, and submit a written proposal of the solution.

Telemedicine centre to soon come up in city

UP will become new destination of health tourism: Yogi

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also launched the Ayush Telemedicine Service on Monday. With this new service, the people of the state will now be able to consult AYUSH experts sitting at home. Uttar Pradesh is the first state to launch a statewide telemedicine service.

Telangana setting benchmarks with AI-driven govtech projects

Declaring 2020 as the Year of AI, the State led several initiatives with applications ranging sectors such as healthcare, e-governance, agriculture, surveillance and many more.

Karnataka to have new health policy in next six months: Health minister

adopting the Tele-ICU model at each hospital to obtain specialist advice. Besides utilising information technology, telemedicine facilities the government also looks to leverage Artificial Intelligence and robotics technology extensively in health care.

ArogyaSetu App receives Jury’s Choice Award

Haryana wins big at Digital India Awards for e-governance, Aarogya Setu gets jury honour

The ‘Innovation in Pandemic’ category’s platinum award went to eSanjeevani National Telemedicine Service from the health ministry. This award recognises “innovative digital solution” that helped during the pandemic.

NDHM–Aims to Streamline Digital Health Ecosystem

With the objective to make people avail accessible and affordable healthcare, the Government has come up with a series of initiatives including the National Digital Health Mission and policy framework on telemedicine. These initiatives would leverage technology to bridge gapson various front, paving path for enriched healthcare experience to masses, says Dr K Madan Gopal, Senior Consultant (Health), Niti Aayog, Government of India, in conversation with Nisha Samant and Mukul Kumar Mishra of Elet

Impressive Events Held Across Jammu Division As PM Launches SEHAT Scheme

Deputy Commissioner Kathua, Om Prakash presided over the main function and threw light on the scope of the ambitious Social Endeavour for Health and Telemedicine (SEHAT) scheme.

FORE School of Management organizes Online COVID-19 Healthcare Conclave 2020

The conclave gathered around 50 doctors, Chief Executive Officers of Cantonment Boards, and prominent industry experts who presented their papers and participated in panel discussions from 21 – 23 December 2020.Going forward, we’re going to use cutting edge technology like Artificial Intelligence in our E-Sanjeevani telemedicine application.

Karnataka plans overhaul of primary health centres, more beds, better infra on cards

“The PHC building will also include facilities such as Yoga and wellness centre, a well-equipped laboratory to facilitate basic blood and other tests, a radiology centre with an X-ray unit, good quality cameras and TVs to facilitate expert doctor consultation through telemedicine,” he said.

Conference discusses growth in telemedicine

The “exponential” growth of telemedicine in India after the notification of the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines earlier this year, was deliberated upon during the virtual 16th annual international conference of the Telemedicine Society of India (TSI).

Pre-book for tele-consultation at PGIMER

Reimagining digital healthcare in India for the new normal.

At the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2020, academic leaders and industry representatives from the healthcare sector came together to highlight the ongoing digital health efforts in various areas of the healthcare system.

India recorded 3X increase in online consultations between March and November 2020: Report

According to the recently published report by Practo and Telemedicine Society of India, metro to non-metro ratio for online consultations stood at 60:40 this year as compared to 75:25 in 2019.

Virus spread likely to intensify in Kerala, warns Health Minister.

The minister also said that the government has intensified e-Sanjeevani services, a telemedicine system, in view of the possibility of an increase in virus spread.

Government is ready to boost economy and speed up development, budget will be 'unprecedented': Sitharaman

He said that investment in health, medical research and development (R&D) and development of comprehensive skills for telemedicine is going to prove important.

Odisha govt sets timeline for completion of projects under OMBADC

Additional Chief Secretary, Health & Family Welfare, Pardeepta Kumar Mohapatra said five category of projects like up-gradation of health infrastructure, improving access to health services, improvement in emergency care services, telemedicine care project in health institutions and special public health programmes are being implemented in Keonjhar, Sundargarh, Mayurbhanj and Jajpur districts.

Online health consultations up three times during Covid-19: Practo-TSI report

Online health consultations have increased significantly amid Covid-19, according to the ‘Rise of Telemedicine - 2020’ report by Telemedicine Society of India and Practo. The report aims to track the rise in telemedicine amid the Covid-19 outbreak and to “recapitulate the key factors contributing to this spike and its long-term benefits”. It is based on insights from users who were on Practo between March 2020 and November 2020. As per the report, the number of people using online hea

PM Modi To Launch Telemedicine Scheme In J&K On December 26

An official spokesperson said Financial Commissioner, Health and Medical Education, Atal Dulloo chaired a review meeting to ensure smooth implementation of the scheme. Jammu: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will roll out the Social Endeavour for Health and Telemedicine (SEHAT) scheme in Jammu and Kashmir on December 26, an official spokesperson said here on Saturday. He said Financial Commissioner, Health and Medical Education, Atal Dulloo chaired a review meeting to ensure smooth implementatio

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath’s Emphasis on Digital Awareness Is Reaping Fruits, Online OPD Service ‘E-Sanjivani’ a Hit Among People

Call for free medicine

Telemedicine services are available twice in a week i.e. on Saturday and Sundays. Patients have to call the number (040) 48215151 but only on Saturdays and Sundays from 9 am-12 noon.

ISRO successfully launches communications satellite CMS-01

The launch of CMS-01 will be crucial for the fields of television, telemedicine and disaster relief. It will also help increase communication services in the Indian subcontinent, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep. After four days, the satellite will reach its orbit.

It is now time for SGPGI to take next big leap: CM

Health Ministry’s telemedicine service eSanjeevani records 1 million consultations

Government’s telemedicine platform eSanjeevani has crossed 1 million teleconsultations record, a mark which represents its growing traction among people to avail remote medical care. The national telemedicine initiative eSanjeevani is being used by patients in over 550 districts of India, the health ministry said in a statement recently. Over 10 per cent of the users of eSanjeevani are aged 60 and above. Close to around one fourth of the total patients have used eSanjeevani more than once, th

Health ministry's telemedicine service eSanjeevani records 1 million teleconsultations

UP CM Exchanges MoUs With Power Grid Corporation To Create Virtual ICUs In Medical Colleges

GMCH-32 starts post-Covid care clinic

Digital India Summit: Championing digital transformation of India's healthcare sector

India’s healthcare industry has seen a significant digital transformation in the last few months as people preferred to stay at home and use telemedicine instead, during the pandemic. Telemedicine grew by 500% since March, half of which was driven mainly by demand from non-metro cities.

Telemedicine emerges stronger in post-Covid world

Cabinet approves laying submarine optical fibre to provide high-speed broadband to Lakshadweep

The submarine connectivity project will have a vital role for the delivery of e-Governance services at the doorstep of citizens, potential development of fisheries, coconut-based industries and high-value tourism, educational development in term of telemedicine facilities.

Wi-Fi in markets, evening eateries in parks on the cards in city

Health ATMs would be established with the help of SGPGI. An expert from the institute was invited in the meeting to discuss it. It was decided that people, particularly those from weak economic background, will be given free medical advice by experts of SGPGI and other prominent hospitals through telemedicine.

Why Anthill Ventures and HCG partnered up to start an India-Singapore focused healthcare accelerator.

Telemedicine: Bane or bliss?

The Medical Council of India, in partnership with the NITI Aayog, has released the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines, 2020.

Cabinet Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu lays the foundation stone of Health and wellness Centre in Village kurara

RKM starts telemedicine service

Signing up for Modi govt’s Digital Health Mission voluntary, says project chief

Combining telemedicine with AI will increase the productivity of clinicians and quality of care says Srinivas Prasad M R, Member, CII National Committee on Technology and R&D

Health Ministry's Telemedicine Service ESanjeevani Completes 9 Lakh Consultations

"TELEMEDICON 2020" - The International Virtual Conference of ‘Telemedicine Society of India’

We are living in a phase of a silent war': Harsh Vardhan on Covid-19

Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, on Sunday said amid coronavirus pandemic, the world is "living in a phase of a silent war". While digitally addressing the Boston Center of Excellence for Health and Human Development through video conference and appreciating it for bringing together experts to research a better cure and better healthcare for all, Vardhan compared the ongoing pandemic to a transitory state of our civilization. He said, “We have not seen the Span

Reimagining digital healthcare in India for the new normal

At the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2020, academic leaders and industry representatives from the healthcare sector came together to highlight the ongoing digital health efforts in various areas of the healthcare system. Digital technology has permeated all aspects of life, and in recent times, it has transformed the delivery of healthcare in new ways. The National Digital Health Mission, launched by the Government of India, is expected to bring in a digital revolution for the health sector in the coun

India, Netherlands Collaborate For E-Health Initiative

New Delhi: India and the Netherlands on Thursday unveiled plans for a joint thrust in the e-health sector, with the aim of providing digital health facilities and security to every Indian. Part of India's ambitious National Digital Health Mission (NDHM), this cooperative initiative will see the two countries work closely to create capacities and put in place the requisite technology backbone to enable this revolutionary initiative. The alliance was announced at a web-based workshop hosted by ma

Health Ministry’s telemedicine service, eSanjeevani, completes 5 lakh tele-consultations

New Delhi: eSanjeevani, Ministry of Health’s telemedicine initiative, is rapidly gaining popularity amongst patients and doctors. It has recorded 5 lakh teleconsultations in a short span of time. The last one lakh consultations were completed in a record time of 17 days. As a digital modality of healthcare services delivery, eSanjeevani is gradually shaping into a parallel stream for the Indian healthcare delivery system with the number of teleconsultations per day on the platform touching 8,0

IIT Kharagpur launches telemedicine software

KOLKATA: With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging, IIT Kharagpur on Friday launched a telemedicine software which facilitates critical health care support to patients at their doorsteps through remote consultation by a physician. The system iMediX which is accessible by any standard internet browser and also from a mobile device, has been developed by researchers at IIT Kharagpurs Department of Computer Science and Engineering, an institute spokesperson said. In this system, a patient signs