Thought Leadership  Telemedicine is the Future of Healthcare
Telemedicine is the Future of Healthcare  Vishal Gupta, VP
Advanced Services, Cisco Systems  For any government, ensuring
that all citizens have access to quality healthcare is a
fundamental responsibility and an essential economic function.
Healthcare must be accessible, affordable, and responsive, both
to the constantly changing medical and clinical needs of
patients as well as to the broader demographic, social, and
cultural shifts that typify the modern world. The health status
of a country is the complex interplay of a variety of factors
like economic growth, per capita income, literacy, education,
age at marriage, birth rates, nutrition, access to safe drinking
water and healthcare infrastructure. In countries like India
rural healthcare IT infrastructure needs to be upgraded and
modernised to enable faster, safer and more efficient delivery.
IT implementation apart, innovative models of public private
partnership and capacity building throug