The Potential of Telemedicine System: An Approach Towards a Mobile Doctor

In developing countries Doctors or Physicians don’t like to go to the rural areas and people of rural (backwards) areas are not facilitated up to the mark. Thus the disaster situation occurs when these people are transferred to the city hospital for tertiary and mostly even for primary care. Advancement in the field of communications provided the solution in the form of Telemedicine. Telemedicine is “the practice of health care using interactive audio, visual and data communications. This includes health care delivery, diagnosis, consultation and treatment, as well as education and transfer of medical data”. Today, Telemedicine systems are supported by State of the Art Technologies like Interactive video, high resolution monitors, high speed computer networks and switching systems, and telecommunications superhighways including fiber optics, satellites and cellular telephony. This paper deals with the design and analysis of a telemedicine system. We have proposed a cost effective multipurpose model of the telemedicine system needed for the developing countries. The proposed telemedicine system has two major parts: a telemedicine unit (patient side) and a base unit (Doctors side). We have shown that how the interconnectivity through high-speed network forms the complete system. The applications of this system includes as: Ambulances, Rural Health Centers (RHC) and Ships navigating in wide seas are as possible emergency sites, while critical care telemetry and Telemedicine home follow-ups are important issues of telemonitoring. By using these facilities we approach towards a mobile doctor.