About School of Telemedicine
The School of Telemedicine has been envisaged to incorporate variousfunctionalities including distant education in medicine, telemedicine programs, computer-based surgical training, digital library, hospital information system, medical education content-development, Indian databases on diseases, bioinformatics, virtual reality and medical robotics, etc.The proposed setup of Telemedicine School at SGPGIMS includes the following typical components of a solution for tele-consultation and Telemedicine.The solution envisages deploying communications tools that support collaboration in real time, from anywhere in the world. The IP based video-conferencing setup effectively eliminates the barriers of time, distance, and resources, permitting people across the globe to function as if they were in the same room. This will allow medical educational institutions to interactively disseminate knowledge anywhere, creating a true “campus without walls.” Various solution options were considered to achieve these objectives and the following design incorporating IP-based videoconferencing including multipoint conference unit, rate matching and gateway modules and videoarchiving and streaming server was finalized. The multifunctional, H.323-compliant IP based video-conferencing setup is based on a rack-mountable chassis and provides a choice of mix-and-match function modules for constructing a powerful videoconferencing resource.
About National Resource Center of Telemedicine
(under department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & IT, Govt. of India)
Progress in information processing and information technology is changing our societies. There is a significant social and economic relevance of information technology for medicine and healthcare especially improving quality of health care. It is expected that these developments will continue in the next decade, probably at least at the same pace as can be observed today. We need to have skilled manpower to meet the demand of the present and future. For a systemic processing of information in medicine and in health care, and for an appropriate and responsible application of information technology, health and IT professionals are needed who are well educated in health informatics. Raising the scope and providing high quality of education in the field of health and medical informatics, and having well educated health professionals world wide would considerably help to raise the quality and efficiency of healthcare. It is also pertinent to note that no such facility has been established yet in India. Many countries in the world look for skilled IT professionals from India and such infrastructure once established can meet their requirement and in turn offer new avenues for employment. Regional, national and international collaboration with medical, IT and technical institutions will be established in teaching and research and application fields which will broaden the scope of the proposed resource center and result in solving several application issues and development of world class products.
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Telemedicine in india | ||||
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National Resource Center in Telemedicine | ||||
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School of Telemedicine & Bio-medical Informatics | ||||
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Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences | ||||