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Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003
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Health Turnkey telemedicine solutions from Apollo V. Rishi Kumar
Hyderabad , Sept. 9 APOLLO Telemedicine Networking Foundation, a non-profit body of the Apollo Hospitals group, and Apollo HealthStreet Ltd, its IT services wing, have together rolled out a new initiative that seeks to offer turnkey solutions to create telemedicine infrastructure in remote locations. Dr D. Lavanian, Delivery Head, ATNF, told Business Line that so far, about 42 telemedicine centres have been established and the company has drawn up plans to reach out about 600 centres in the next 12 months. "As a part of the initiative to help doctors and nursing homes in creating a network, we have decided to offer them single touch solutions," he said. "Typically, doctors are not technology savvy and find its adoption a tough task. As a part of joint initiative, we will provide services right from consultancy, networking, hardware and software and also train them, in effect handling all their telemedicine related infrastructure as a turnkey solutions provider," he added. "We have partnered with some of the best in the industry and have developed software that is platform neutral. By partnership with companies such as Polycom, a video conferencing solutions provider, we have brought down the cost of infrastructure for a remote telemedicine centre." As per plans, by investing about Rs 15,000, and the rest of about Rs 85,000 through a bank loan, a small clinic, or a doctor, or even a nursing home can establish a telemedicine facility. "All he has to do is to take a decision, and we can provide all the solutions that will make them globally connected," Dr Lavanian said. "Unlike the problem of teaming up with a multiple vendors, we have evolved a single point solutions approach that builds on custom-designed software that seamlessly integrates with the national network, and also enables them to get instant connectivity," he added. "We have developed this system as a self-sustaining model where an investment on such a telemedicine infrastructure is recovered in just about a few months." This builds on the public private partnership (PPP) model and also enables doctors and clinics in remote locations to access specialist consultation.
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