Telemedicine & Digital Health

Advance Telemedicine

Advance telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technology to eliminate the distance barrier and to improve the access to clinical services. Applied Medical Informatics studies the administration of medical statistics, the effective management of information using computer technology, and the impact of such methods on medical research, education. It is also used to save lives in critical care and emergency situations. Although there were distant precursors to telemedicine, it is essentially a product of 20th century telecommunication and information technologies. The various sub tracks included in Advance telemedicine are Store and forward Telemedicine, Tele-hospitals, Prognostics in Telemedicine, Wireless telemedicine system, Impact of telemedicine in health, Telemedicine in management of diseases. According to some statistics the annual growth of telemedicine will increase about $21.9 Billion in a span of 6 years from 2014 to 2020.