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Article: Research from K. Ganapathy and co-authors in the area of telemedicine published.
- Article from:
- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- September 23, 2009
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"The challenges faced and the methods implemented by the Apollo Hospitals Group in introducing telemedicine in the Indian setting are discussed in this article. Using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to make available secondary and tertiary medical expertise to suburban and rural India was thought of as early as 1997," scientists in Madras, India report (see also Telemedicine).
"In March 2000, the world's first Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT)-enabled village hospital was commissioned. Today, with 115 centers including 9 overseas, the Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation (ATNF) is the oldest and largest multispecialty telemedicine network. ...