11th International Telemedicine Conference is being organised from 27-29 November 2015 at Techno India, Kolkata. Over 350 Healthcare Academicians, Researchers, Policy makers & medical students of Nursing and Allied health sciences from all over the world is attending the Conference.
Telemedicine Congress will involve an excellent forum for information sharing and exclusive opportunity for participating delegates to meet with high-level society leaders, academicians, developers and practitioners. The organizing team has designed a broad and varied scientific program, which will be exceptionally beneficial to the development of Telemedicine in India.
There are 25-30 international and national faculty members, who are well-recognized experts in the field. This congress is intended for Healthcare Academicians, Researchers, Policy makers & medical students including Nursing and Allied health sciences.
Prof. (Dr.) Bhabatosh Biswas, Vice Chancellor, WB University of Health Sciences inaugurated the 11th International Telemedicine Conference today at Hotel Novotel. Other dignitaries present at the program were Prof. S K Mishra, Chairperson, Organizing Committee & Professor of Endocrine Surgery at SGPGIMS, Lucknow, Prof. Uday C Ghoshal, Organizing Secretary & Professor of Gastroenterology at SGPGIMS, Lucknow , Dr. B.S Ratta, President of Telemedicine Society of India, Prof. Mammon Chandy, Director Tata Medical Center, and Mr. Goutam Roy Chowdhury, Director, Techno India.
India is likely to become the destination for healthcare and education including medical education in the future. This is conforming to India's vision of "Digital India". One of the derivations of this vision could be “Make Health Care and Medical Education digital in India” for Indians as well as neighbouring countries.
Universal access to healthcare is one of the serious issues in our country even when we have aspired and achieved in digitally empowering many of the service sectors. Moreover, effective treatment of many diseases requires specialized intervention and is technology driven, hence, the need of super specialists in the modern day care process should not be under-estimated. Unfortunately, there is dearth of super specialist in remote areas even today. Similarly, the healthcare professionals getting education and training in institutions across the country need to be adequately trained and re-trained to ensure safe and quality care delivery to citizens. Unfortunately, scarcity of good medical educators and heterogeneity of educational Institutions is well known to the policy makers; hence, an alternative path needs to be worked out to meet the challenges.
To bridge the gap in need and demand in healthcare & medical education, e-Education and e-Healthcare using telemedicine technology is a potentially effective solution in India. As West Bengal is a densely populated state with heterogeneity in healthcare access and medical education particularly in remote areas, Telemedicine technology is likely to be quite useful for this state. To address some of the above-mentioned problems, the School of Telemedicine & Biomedical Informatics, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow is organizing this international event under the aegis of Telemedicine Society of India ( www.telemedcongress.in ) at the Techno India College, sector V, Salt Lake, Kolkata with support from NRS Medical College, Burdwan Medical College, Midnapore Medical College, Tata Medical Centre and JN Medical College, Kalyani. Prof. Uday C Ghoshal, Professor of Gastroenterology at SGPGIMS, Lucknow and the Organizing Secretary informed that with support from Prof. S K Mishra, the Chairperson of the Organizing Committee, we have been able to connect four Medical Colleges of West Bengal in last one year; more than 25 e-classes have been conducted between SGPGIMS, Lucknow and these four medical colleges in West Bengal in last one year in which more than 800 MBBS and MD students benefited. Several patients also received the consultation service using this remote communication technology and a few health research projects are undergoing, which are expected to benefit the patients as well as the science.
More than 5 workshops have also been organized in last one year from SGPGIMS for these Medical Colleges, which are expected to remove the heterogeneity in educational facilities in different colleges. Prof. Ghoshal informed that further plan is to connect Primary Health Centres via District Hospitals with the Medical Colleges.
This will be of tremendous benefit to ailing humanity particular in remote areas of West Bengal as there is shortage of doctors in these area. Even paramedical staffs would be able to help patients using telemedicine technology to provide consultation with experienced doctors located in cities. As many diseases can be diagnosed simply by good history taking and some baseline investigations, telemedicine technology is likely to complement patient care in remote areas where well-trained doctors may not be available.
Prof. Mishra and Prof. Ghoshal also informed that now technology for checking the temperature, blood pressure, hear heart sound and performing electrogcardiography from remote location is available.
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Organization: Telemedicine Society of India
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