TY - GEN
T1 - Design and development of a customizable telemedicine platform for improving access to healthcare for underserved populations
AU - Goel, Neha A.
AU - Alam, Amal A.
AU - Eggert, Emily M.R.
AU - Acharya, Soumyadipta
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/9/13
Y1 - 2017/9/13
N2 - Telemedicine offers a method to bridge the healthcare access gap in low and middle income countries (LMICs) by connecting providers with patients using appropriate technology. Here we describe the design and development of a novel modular telemedicine platform, Intelehealth, that would enable health systems to connect remote doctors with patients in rural clinics using a customizable Android-based platform and a cloud-based electronic health record system at the backend (OpenMRS). This open source platform enables task shifting of medically relevant information gathering by a local health worker, transmission of this information to a remote doctor, and a telephonic conversation between the doctor and the patient that subsequently allows for delivery of an appropriate therapeutic plan. Intelehealth is designed to operate on a low bandwidth internet environment, and will be tested and validated in rural health clinics in India.
AB - Telemedicine offers a method to bridge the healthcare access gap in low and middle income countries (LMICs) by connecting providers with patients using appropriate technology. Here we describe the design and development of a novel modular telemedicine platform, Intelehealth, that would enable health systems to connect remote doctors with patients in rural clinics using a customizable Android-based platform and a cloud-based electronic health record system at the backend (OpenMRS). This open source platform enables task shifting of medically relevant information gathering by a local health worker, transmission of this information to a remote doctor, and a telephonic conversation between the doctor and the patient that subsequently allows for delivery of an appropriate therapeutic plan. Intelehealth is designed to operate on a low bandwidth internet environment, and will be tested and validated in rural health clinics in India.
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U2 - 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037404
DO - 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037404
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 29060446
AN - SCOPUS:85032172769
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 2658
EP - 2661
BT - 2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2017
Y2 - 11 July 2017 through 15 July 2017
ER -