Telemedicine: An Era Yet to Flourish in India

Telemedicine and Plastic Surgery in India

Telemedicine in Rural India

I n a developing country such as India, there is huge inequality in health-care distribution. Although nearly 75% of Indians live in rural villages, more than 75% of Indian doctors are based in cities [1]. Most of the 620 million rural Indians lack access to basic health care facilities [2]. The Indian government spends just 0.9% of the country's annual gross domestic product on health, and lit...

How to flourish during an economic downturn.

Everyone knows that America’s economy is in trouble. How is this affecting dentistry? Many practices are experiencing more open time, a record number of broken appointments and less production as Americans tighten their purse strings. Some practices are closing their doors and there are dentists looking to work additional days in busier practices. People are losing jobs and insurance benefits a...

telemedicine and plastic surgery in india

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Adoption of Telemedicine in India – An Exploratory Study

The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based Telemedicine has proved itself as the greatest blessing of the scientific era that has redeemed the humanity by penetrating into the Healthcare delivery system to provide ‘Healing by Wire’. The presence of diverse geographical features, exponentially rising population, urban-rural bias, regional dialects, underserved people, are some of t...