Telemedicine and advances in “ultrafast information and communication technologies” presents an opportunity to share not only to health professionals to share their resources and expertise for healthcare over vast distances. It has also opened a gateway for the distribution of global knowledge explosion through tele-education, mentoring, and even performing skilled procedures for training students and surgeons across land and seas. In the last decade, in many countries in the Indian subcontinent and Africa with pockets of medical excellence surrounded by a vast number of meagerly equipped hospitals with a limited number of specialists, telemedicine is revolutionizing health care and medical education.
The potential of telemedicine has several advantages viz. avoiding the travel by both patients and specialists and getting specialist advice to remote areas. It also is an effective tool…
