Telemedicine is basically where the health and care can be done form a distance where distance is been taken into the deep consideration for the telecommunication system purpose. It can be used as an growing field for treating the increased accessibility to heath care.

When COVID-19 has a become a major concern to the whole world so to keeping such rules for social distancing the telemedicine have used a great resource of electronic information and telecommunication technology with the objective of treating the patients without getting into contact with the hospital facilities and the doctor himself/herself. Advice and other consultations of the patient has been done by the doctor online. Telemedicine can be divided or can be further categorized into two types where one of the type is synchronous telemedicine which means there is a need of real-time video conferencing in this type and there is the other type which is known as the asynchronous telemedicine which can be achieved by the help of the email correspondence.

Telemedicine is not exactly telehealth there has been a marginal difference between these two terms. Telemedicine is the term which mostly inclined towards focusing on the services which are clinical, which can also consists of discussions of physicians, training for the doctors for the diseases earlier not known. It can be considered as the most effective and viable field for the problems where there is no doctor availability nearby in case where the people living in the rural areas can not afford the hospitals.

It can be considered as the one of the applications for the space technology for the benefits of the rural societies. ISRO developed this technology for which they can connect the rural college students with the help of the Indian satellites to the specialized hospitals. Teleconference has become the most common way of communicating and taking one on one sessions with the healthcare providers.

Source: springer