Telemedicine, reduced to its simplest form, is connecting geographically separate health care facilities via telecommunications, video, and information systems. It is the use of telecommunications technology to provide, enhance, or expedite health care services, as by accessing off-site databases, linking clinics or physicians' offices to central hospitals, or transmitting X-rays or other diagnostic images for examination at another site. Health care professionals can make use of these linked telemedicine medical devices in the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of patients in other locations. These devices are enhanced through the use of telecommunications technology, network computing, video-conferencing systems and CODECs.
MGL Telemedicine is developed as a fully integrated telemedicine solution for linking various clinics and hospitals located in the remote areas of India with MGL Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre (AIMS), Cochin. This helps the doctors in these hospitals/clinics to seek expert opinion on treatment, medicine etc. from expert doctors at AIMS and to share databases with them. MGL provides complete Telemedicine solutions, backed up by expert integration, customer service and training support.
Telemedicine Services include:
- Teleconsultation: Remote Doctor can have a Teleconsultation about a patient with the specialist either with or without the presence of the patient
- Telesurgery: Here a remote doctor can have a Teleconsultation with an expert surgeon in conducting an operation. Though Telemedicine is relatively new in India, AIMS has the distinction of conducting the first Telesurgery in India.
- CME Programmes: Continuing Medical Education (CME) for the doctors/specialists which includes seminars, workshop, weekly CMEs, and Grand Rounds (multi-specialty discussion)
- Tele-Health: Public Health Programmes are telecasted to benefit the general public
- Distance Education: Medical courses/classes can be scheduled and conducted for students/doctors/specialists remotely
Benefits of our Telemedicine:
- Healthcare information universally available at the touch of a button and patient satisfaction with face-to-face video consultation
- A pathologist using micromanipulator can remotely change the field of view, focus and magnify a slide located under a microscope thousands of miles away
- Telemedicine technology can be used for oncology, mental health care to patients in rural jails, hospice care, and also to augment school health services
- Video conferencing also opens up new possibilities for continuing education or training for isolated or rural health practitioners
- MGL Telemedicine service provides primary specialist diagnosis, second opinion, recommended treatment and post treatment advice based on consultation, medical data test results
- DNB teaching programs are telecast to other Telemedicine centers
- CMEs are telecasted to rural and remote places to update the knowledge of doctors
- Remote specialists can provide expert advice on the transmitted scanned images like MRI, CT-scan, X-Ray, ultrasound, doppler, echo, holter, angiographies, pathological slides, blood, urine test results, etc.
- Fetal Echocardiography will be very helpful in the early diagnosis of the heart problems and proper treatment could be given appropriately
