Telemedicine is the practice of diagnosis, consultation and treatment of patients by tele-communication between physicians and specialists, finally, the benefit going to distant patients. Specifically, telemedicine is a 2-way audio and video communication network that allows hospitals and their physicians and specialists I the field of medicine; access to medical technological resources via telephone lines, Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) lines and/or satellite linkups. The use of Telemedicine and its interactive medical technology continues to grow and many institutions, hospitals and clinics are utilizing the newer developments in Telemedicine application. Telemedicine is an emerging field that can have profound social impact on the delivery and quality of medical care. This book aims to support in sensitizing the Government and private organizations to come forward to establish facilities for utilising telemedicine application in their clinical practice. Telemedicine will be the next big wave to inundate the practice of Medicine. The combined synergy of low cost computing power, improving telecommunication facilities (including the internet) and advances in clinical information sciences will transform how medicine is practiced. Perhaps the medical profession needs help to formulate the strategic plans in health care sector. The book will give information that perhaps is urgently needed to our physicians and surgeons to understand the basic concept of Telemedicine technology and its application in clinical medicine.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR B D Gupta
Dr. B.D. Gupta is currently Professor-Emeritus of Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGI), Chandigarh, and former Adviser to the first National Project on “Telemedicine Technology for Optimising Medical Resources of the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India. Dr. Gupta got his medical training MBBS and MD degree in Radiology from S.N. Medical College, Agra. He then proceeded to the United Kingdom for higher studies in Radiotherapy and Oncology a discipline which was not existing in India during those days. Dr. Gupta was awarded the prestigious Fellowship FRCR from Royal College of Radiologists, London, in 1967. He was specially invited in 1968 by the All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi to join as Assistant Professor in Radiotherapy. Dr. Gupta has many firsts to his credit. He established an independent Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology of PGIMER Chandigarh in 1971. It is this department which rolled out the first candidate of MD Radiotherapy in the country in 1973. He is a Founder-Member of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board of Atomic Energy Commission founded in 1983 by the then Prime Minister of India. He is also a Founder-Member of the Association of Radiation Oncologists of India (The National Body of Radiation Oncologists). He was assigned the Presidentship during its formative years. Dr. Gupta was a key person in the development of the first indigenous high-tech Linear Accelerator in collaboration with the CSIO Chandigarh and SAMEER Mumbai in the last decade of the 20th century. Dr. Gupta was awarded Dr. B.C. Roy Award, the National Award for a renowned medical teacher, and National Cancer Research Award by the ICMR, New Delhi. He retired from PGIMER Chandigarh in 1994 as Professor & Head of the Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, after serving for 25 years. He was subsequently requested by the Government of Punjab to take up the assignment of Director-Principal of a new medical college – Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences to be established Jalandhar. Dr. Gupta is a WHO consultant and was deputed to many countries on short-term assignments for establishment of Radiotherapy and Oncology facilities; to name a few Sri Lanka and Mangolia.
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