Hi Brijesh,
ICT in Health poses an ocean of possibilities. What we popularly know as eHealth is just a small part of it. Primarily ICT helps in connecting the health entities and managing them efficiently. This leads to e-Records, which links every instances of a patient record through a unique identifier of the patient. Connected knowledge, as we say, plays a major role in identifying several health issues (somehow linked to family traits) at an early stage.
Second comes the use of inclusive ICT in the medical equipments, which includes machine read/write enabled systems.
Also ICT plays an important role in the post medication phase or rehabilitation, where it extends passive medical services to the recovering patient. Analysis of lifestyle data through embedded sensors is also an important aspect of this phase.
Somehow in this approach, ICT is being used in healthcare services. With an inclusive temper of ICT, the healthcare services proceed towards a virtual reality, which would completely redefine the healthcare experience.
Regards.
Poster Internet of Things for Ubiquitous Healthcare Services – Rede...
Conference Paper Internet of Things for a Smart and Ubiquitous eHealth System
ICT use in healthcare is a step forward, yes. But there are many challenges, and the GOOD that we desire depends a lot on human 'accuracy'. It's the same in my country.
"I am pleased to note that ASSOCHAM is organizing National Summit on ICT in Healthcare “Changing dimensions of Healthcare in India” on 4th June, 2014 in New Delhi. This Summit has significance and importance as there is enormous potential of ICT in the con- text of healthcare system in the country. Of the total number of doctors in India, hardly 2% practice in rural areas. So at doorstep of rural population, India does not have that kind of specialty support for treatments and diagnostics. Further, to transport every patient of rural area to the city to get specialist medical attention will be a huge task and probably impossible. Therefore Government need to formulate enabling policies regarding implementation of ICT in the healthcare industry, in order to curtail the healthcare cost burden and bring the quality at par with internationally available healthcare services."
http://www.slideshare.net/ShushmulMaheshwari/ict-in-healthcare-opportunities-and-challenges
http://www.medcom.dk/dwn5086.pdf
Dear Dr. Parag and Dr. Miranda,
Thank you so much for the valuable information. It is very useful for the people who is trying to do something in this area in a low income country.
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