Remote consulting and tele diagnosis
- Many low resource settings such as primary healthcare centres do not have a full set of qualified professionals
- Remote consulting and diagnosis can help in implementing hub and spoke models with.
- Expert guidance from the control centre
- Point of Care efficiency leading to referral / treatment as required
- Need not have highly qualified radiologists / sonologists at the POC. They can be guided on the right protocols, machine settings virtually to do the right scan (case in point is reduction of Infant and maternal mortality rates in low resource settings)
- Efficient and safe remote patient monitoring (“tele-icu”). Can be enhance further with Video analytics and use of image processing and machine learning
Medical training and education of healthcare professionals
- Perform hands on procedures in a virtual environment with controlled settings
- Can gain experience in handling several real world scenarios
- “Flight Simulator” for healthcare procedures
