Health care for rural India is a dream for the government of India. India is fast growing towards implementing the Unique Identification mechanism for all its citizens and a bright idea that came up in my mind was the use of IT especially cloud computing to bring expert medical advice to the doorsteps of rural people who are less fortunate to get medical advice and proper diagnosis.
The advent of 3G mobile technology has brought up various opportunities and opened up doors to various innovations that could revolutionize health care and information sharing.
Citizens will have a unique identification number and medical records can be linked to the unique id to effectively manage medical history.
All villages and small towns could have a computer terminal connected to a cloud via the 3g services being offered by Wireless mobile service providers. 3g offers high speed internet connectivity and high density data transfer.
Patient can come up to this medical kiosks and can use the web conferencing facility hosted on the cloud which links up to various medical colleges, hospitals and renowned clinics to interact with the patient and share x-ray , scanned medical test reports with the expert medical practitioners.
This data relating to every patient can be stored on Databases, linked to individual patients via the Unique Id, available on the cloud. The data can then be used for analysis by medical colleges and the doctor’s bench for proper diagnosis and prescription.
Citizens could donate their used desktops and laptops for such kiosks and can again promote the Green Initiative by making proper use of available resources.
The benefits include a) low cost of implementation compared to implementing a whole system at each kiosk b) Centralized data for medical history management and information sharing. c) High quality medical advice without setting up a whole hospital and spending in-out to maintain it.
The advent of 3G mobile technology has brought up various opportunities and opened up doors to various innovations that could revolutionize health care and information sharing.
Citizens will have a unique identification number and medical records can be linked to the unique id to effectively manage medical history.
All villages and small towns could have a computer terminal connected to a cloud via the 3g services being offered by Wireless mobile service providers. 3g offers high speed internet connectivity and high density data transfer.
Patient can come up to this medical kiosks and can use the web conferencing facility hosted on the cloud which links up to various medical colleges, hospitals and renowned clinics to interact with the patient and share x-ray , scanned medical test reports with the expert medical practitioners.
This data relating to every patient can be stored on Databases, linked to individual patients via the Unique Id, available on the cloud. The data can then be used for analysis by medical colleges and the doctor’s bench for proper diagnosis and prescription.
Citizens could donate their used desktops and laptops for such kiosks and can again promote the Green Initiative by making proper use of available resources.
The benefits include a) low cost of implementation compared to implementing a whole system at each kiosk b) Centralized data for medical history management and information sharing. c) High quality medical advice without setting up a whole hospital and spending in-out to maintain it.
