Note4Students
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level : E-Sanjeevani
Mains level : Telemedicine and its effectiveness
1.5 lakh teleconsultations were recently completed on the “eSanjeevani” and “eSanjeevani OPD” tele-medicine.
Why Telemedicine?
Telemedicine can increase the efficiency of care delivery, reduce expenses of caring for patients or transporting to another location, and can even keep patients out of the hospital.
E-Sanjeevani Platform
- E-Sanjeevani is a platform-independent, browser-based application facilitating both doctor-to-doctor and patient-to-doctor tele-consultations.
- It provides the ease of accessing the health records at the comforts of one’s home.
- The application is based on invite-system which restricts it to the actual beneficiaries of the application.
- It has a user-friendly interface which facilitates both tech-savvy and novice doctors/users in the rural and urban environment to access the application.
- This eSanjeevani platform has enabled two types of telemedicine services viz. Doctor-to-Doctor (eSanjeevani) and Patient-to-Doctor (eSanjeevani OPD) Tele-consultations.
- The former is being implemented under the Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centre (AB-HWCs) programme.
Services included:
The telemedicine platform hosts speciality OPDs which include:
- Gynaecology, Psychiatry, Dermatology, ENT, Ophthalmology, antiretroviral therapy (ART) for the AIDS/HIV patients, Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) etc
With inputs from: