What is it all about Telemedicine in today’s world? Earlier it was about Artificial Intelligence and now this. I wonder what’s next. It’s like the fashion industry, a never-ending complexity changing the world - Revolution, Revolting and Rebellious. We are living in the age of high information and communication technology and have a long-standing problem of improving human health in healthcare systems.
What if I tell you we could trace telemedicine from ancient Greece to the present time? There were two concepts then, first, they tend to be very brief, often cursory or selective, sometimes limited to a couple of paragraphs, and were typically included as a prelude to another topic. Second, they were invariably simple accounts of early attempts to connect providers and patients through telecommunication devices available at that time. They wanted to be guided solely by the documented…
