An indigenously developed affordable and sustainable telemedicine system

Telemedicine offers a solution for providing expert medical care to rural people in the Third World. However, indigenous development of necessary equipment is essential for affordability to a large number of centres in the country and for sustained service. The present work reports indigenous develo...

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Main Authors: Siddique-e Rabbani, K, Amin, A.-A, Bodiuzzaman, A.K.M, Khan, A.I, Abir, A.R, Tarafdar, Z, Rahman, M.O
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Bioelectric signals
Biology and medical computing
Biomedical communication
Computer communications
Electrical activity in neurophysiological processes
Electrodiagnostics and other electrical measurement techniques
Patient diagnostic methods and instrumentation
Sonic and ultrasonic radiation (biomedical imaging/measurement)
Sonic and ultrasonic radiation (medical uses)
Telemedicine
X-ray techniques: radiography and computed tomography (biomedical imaging/measurement)
X-rays and particle beams (medical uses)
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Summary:Telemedicine offers a solution for providing expert medical care to rural people in the Third World. However, indigenous development of necessary equipment is essential for affordability to a large number of centres in the country and for sustained service. The present work reports indigenous development of five items of equipment and necessary software for a microcomputer based telemedicine system in Bangladesh rural health complexes established by the Government. The items are: Stethoscope, X-ray viewbox, Microscope, 12 lead diagnostic ECG and Colposcope, and all data can be sent in real time. If the system succeeds it will be a model for the Third World countries. (6 pages)
DOI:10.1049/cp.2012.1468