Medical Milestone

APOLLO Telemedicine

APOLLO Telemedicine denotes the delivery and provision of healthcare and consultative services to individual patients and the transmission of information related to care, over distance, using telecommunication technologies.

Telemedicine incorporates direct clinical, preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic services and treatment; consultative and follow-up services; remote monitoring of patients; rehabilitative services and patient education.

Health care providers are faced with scientific, social and economic challenges in the delivery of healthcare services. Telemedicine can meet many of these challenges in an organized and cost efficient manner through a better exchange of information, medical expertise and access to quality care. Telemedicine is not a medical specialty but a health care delivery system that is revolutionizing medicine and the delivery of Health care as it is known today.

Telemedicine, utilizing today's significant advances in technology and telecommunication techniques, provides a new method of effectively delivering health care. It is now possible to transmit text, sound, images and video from one location to another. Telemedicine allows its users to reduce the burdens of inferior health care access through utilization of technology.

Applications

• Reaching out to distant locations, which can significantly reduce the time and costs of the patient transportation.
• Transmitting images to key medical centers for long distance evaluation by appropriate medical specialists.
• Permitting physicians doing clinical research to be linked together despite geographical separation.
• Charting patient records and diagnostic images.
• Telemedicine applied to medical practice results in
• Reduction in the need to transfer patients to a site of medical expertise
• Decrease in the relocation of medical specialists to the patient
• Better organized and less costly health care
• More efficient and effective use of medical and technological resources
• Enhanced diagnostic and therapeutic quality of care
• Opens up new possibilities for continuing education or training for isolated or rural health practitioners

Videoconferencing and Clinical Programmes

Videoconferencing in Telemedicine has proven to be a fantastic tool for educational purposes, apart from its primary role of carrying out online tele-consultations.

• NGO- Krishna Foundation:
• Swasthya Uday Abhiyan

Vision:

• To create modern health care institute, which will emerge as major referral center?

Mission:

• To create world class infrastructure backed by appropriate technologies.
• To achieve highest levels of operational efficiencies in areas of patient care.
• To provide focused care in an environment that satisfies needs of patients.
• Activities to be pursued on continual basis healthy returns for further growth.