ScienceDaily: New Long-distance Wireless Networking Brings Eye Care To India

by parul8ue on Aug 25, 2007      Category: Health & Disability Tags: india health appropriate technology blindness

Excellent example of how technology can be used to make health care widely accessible. Below is the video of a patient at Bodi remotely consulting a doctor at Aravind Eye Hospitals, Theni via video-conference over a long distance point-to-point wifi link (The TIER group at UC berkeley has been involved with this). The distance between Bodi and Theni is about 15 Km.

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ameetdesh's picture

This is wonderful! Both the remote healthcare model, and wireless technology that enabled this.

nitiniitk's picture

Remote healthcare is gaining prominence in all medical fields even among the well to do people, especially in case regular checkups. A friend of mine built a product for remotely analysing (somewhat automated too I believe) mammograms for breast cancer checkup. These kinds of technologies present some really interesting possibilities for rural health care, particularly now with the increasing penetration of cell phones.

parul8ue's picture

This is very interesting. we had done an electronic design project as a part of our engineering course - transmitting ECG signals over phone to enable early identification of symptoms of cardiac arrests. would like to know more info about this product (and others similar?). Is it commercial?

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