Telemedicine Solution

I can see that emerging markets like India now need a Telemedicine solution for e-Consultation; or second opinion between physician in primary health centers and specialists located in secondary/tertiary care hospital.

This Telemedicine solution could also be extended for Medical tourism across countries; because its required for patients e-Consultation from other countries also.

The typical challenges and some solutions are as follows-

1. Interoperability/Integration of silos applications/solutions/products – HL7, DICOM and E-HR standards are helping in this area
2. No standards for Integration of medical devices with EMR – Open area
3. Mobile platforms not suitable/reliable for healthcare apps – Open area
4. Lack of common vocabulary – until full adoption of SNOMED, ICD, CPT
5. No standards for healthcare data storage – Still an open area, maybe CCR
6. Bandwidth – 2mbps DSL falls short for transferring images; Needs a dedicated pipe to transfer images.
7. Medical grade Network – CISCO has launched a medical grade network now
8. Data Security – Symantec has launched Healthcare data security products recently
9. Data backup – Symantec has launched Veritas version for Healthcare recently