Indian perspective Architecture for Advancement of Biomedical Telemedicine and mHealth System

Abstract

 Abstract— Healthcare delivery is becoming a big challenge for the increasing population in the world. This is even a bigger challenge for the developing and under developed countries due to scarce resources. Taking the case of India, where majority population lives in rural areas and far furlong regions like Andaman and Nikobar Islands or eastern parts of the country, getting desired level of medical facilities has become dream for the citizens of these areas. This inadequate healthcare delivery system is facing constraints due to increased number of patients, which is reflecting as long waiting queue, shortage of hospital beds and inadequate intensive care/emergency units. The existing healthcare delivery model, if supported by the modern wireless and web technologies can give solutions to some of the problems and this in turn can make appropriate healthcare feasible for more number of people without their relocation. With the use of information and communication technologies in healthcare many terms like Telemedicine, eHealth and mHealth are frequently used. This paper briefly introduces these terms and proposes new telemedicine mHealth architecture.