Dash, Sambit (2021) Telemedicine during COVID‑19 in India—a new policy and its challenges. Journal of Public Health Policy, 42 (3). pp. 501-509. ISSN 0197-5897
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Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a countrywide lockdown of nearly twelve weeks in India reduced access to regular healthcare services. As a policy response, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare which exercises jurisdiction over telemedicine in India, rapidly issued India’s frst guidelines for use of telemedicine. The authors argue that: guidelines must be expanded to address ethical concerns about the use of privacy, patient data and its storage; limited access to the internet and weaknesses in the telecom infrastructure challenge widespread adoption of telemedicine; only by simultaneously improving both will use of telemedicine become equitable; Indian medical education curricula should include telemedicine and India should rapidly extend training to practitioner. They determine that for low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), including India, positive externalities of investing in telemedicine are ample, thus use of this option can render healthcare more accessible and equitable in future
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Telemedicine ; Privacy ; Data use ; Internet infrastructure ; Competencies ; Access ; Policy |
Subjects: | Medicine > MMMC Manipal > Biochemistry |
Depositing User: | KMC Library |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2022 06:26 |
Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2022 06:26 |
URI: | http://eprints.manipal.edu/id/eprint/158215 |
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