India's Mobile Healthcare

India’s global mobile health technology faces rapid growth in the next couple of years.

Mobile broadband is set to make all medical documentation electronic and easily accessible.

Importance of Rural India vis-a-vis Indian Healthcare Reforms
An insight into the currently prevailing scenario pertaining to healthcare sector across India with special focus on the rural masses.

In a country where the majority of the masses lives in villages, and where ironically, most healthcare professionals lives in cities, m-health is vitally essential to provide healthcare services in all parts of the land.

The Apollo Group has already set up tele-centres in Chennai and Kolkata where medical services would be available at a call on a mobile phone. A remarkably innovative pilot project is to be tried out to handle emergency pregnancies through video streaming.

Multinational phone companies are initiating different programs to handle different health issues and medical emergency situations

Healthcare Using Telephone and Telemonitoring Benefits Heart Failure Patients
Good news for Patients suffering from chronic heart failure. Telemonitoring is not only going to give them a “thumbs up” for life but will also save them big bucks.

India has set its sights far ahead in m-health technology.

Global Health Improved by Mobile Technology
Global health can be improved with inexpensive diagnostic tools, patient reminders and efficient immunization schedules through mobile technology, declared Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft.

Source-Medindia

It Will be MHealth Now, UN to Marshall Mobile Technology
More than the e-health, mHealth could be the key to a better life for the masses in developing countries, it looks like. The United Nations is getting into the act.