PUNE: The city-based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) launched a record called ‘Mercury Nimbus’ on Sunday that promises to revoke a cost of telemedicine by during slightest 80%.
The technology, that is formed on cloud computing, can be used by doctors and hospitals on inclination including tablets, intelligent phones and laptops with internet connectivity. Telemedicine is a use of telecommunication and information technologies to yield clinical health caring during a distance.
Pradeep K Sinha, conduct of a dialect of medical informatics group, C-DAC, announced a launch of a record during a MahaTelemedicon discussion of a Maharashtra section of a Telemedicine Society of India, organized by a Indian Medical Association.
“At present, doctors and hospitals have to deposit a lot on formulating a whole infrastructure to settle studious to doctor, alloy to sanatorium or sanatorium to sanatorium connectivity. With a new technology, connectivity between all these parties becomes easier and faster, thereby shortening a cost of formulating a computing infrastructure,” pronounced Sinha.
Gaur Sunder, principal technical officer during C-DAC, pronounced that if a cancer studious goes to a circuitously sanatorium and a doctors refers him to a sanatorium outward his benefaction location, city or state, than in such a case, by ‘Mercury Nimbus,’ a alloy can probably impute his box to a specialty sanatorium along with all a sum of a patients, annals and reports.
The alloy during a specialty sanatorium can investigate a annals and by video conferencing allot evident diagnosis to a studious and also give a subsequent date of visit. The subsequent time a studious visits a clinic, his reports would be sent again to a sanatorium and accordingly a specialty alloy can give him a time and sum of his diagnosis or medicine date.
“In such situations, a patient’s appetite and income is saved from travelling within a city or from one city to a other. It is some-more useful in farming areas and open health centres where specialty doctors are never present. Also, a doctors will have a medical story of a studious electronically created, that will assistance in box of an emergency,” pronounced Sunder.
Broadly famous as telemedicine, Sunder pronounced that some-more and some-more doctors and hospitals are apropos wakeful of this record that mix communication ways with information technologies for a smoothness of clinical care.
All that a doctors or hospitals need to do is allow to Windows Azure, that is a cloud platform, by a device they possess and secure a looseness from C-DAC for usage. Once this is done, a doctors and hospitals can use a record on their laptops, inscription or intelligent phone. They do not even have to say a complement or have a server for storage.
Sunder said, “It is as easy as subscribing to Gmail to open an comment and carrying out activities such as promulgation and receiving email, formulating drafts and papers or cinema among other things. The rest of a partial such as storage, adult gamut and upkeep of a comment is finished during a backend.” The subscription charges operation from $15 to $150 per month.