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• Healthcare involves multi work centers and people of inter-disciplinary specialization. The future will require more cooperation in and between healthcare units due to
- the increasing mobility of people
- the time span of case episodes
- the evolving specialized healthcare
- the requirement for avoiding repetition of medical procedures, and
- the monetary constraints.

• This can be achieved only by making healthcare accessible to patients. In other words, Telemedicine allows doctors reach to patients rather than patients reaching out to doctors.

• The Foundation plans to make healthcare accessible by using latest communication technology for connecting population living in villages, towns, and small cities with the Hospitals in the big cities. The initiative will enable the rural population across the country to seek medical advise from experts sitting in large super specialty hospitals without having to bear the financial burden and stress of traveling to the cities.

• In the first phase, the Foundation has launched Telemedicine at the district hospital at Mahaboobnagar, which enables transfer of textual data, images and video conferencing between the district hospital and Care Banjara Hospital on a continuous basis, there by enabling patients to get the best of the opinions from their local site.

• The greatest impact of telemedicine is on the patient, the family and the community. By using telemedicine technologies, it reduces travel time and related stresses to the patient. In many instances, patient movement would require travel by additional family members, day care costs, and time away from the job. This disruption in the local community can be avoided when advanced communication technology is used to bring the consulting specialist to the patient.

• Telemedicine is driven by:

- Need to decrease costs of care through increased efficiency and decreased provider time in travel
- Need to increase access to care for underserved populations
- Convenience to patients, and facilitate follow-up care
- Desire to address new markets or new patient populations

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