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Title:
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MICRO HEALTH CENTRE (µHC) CLOUD ENABLED HEALTHCARE INFRASTRUCTURE |
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Author(s):
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Jaijit Bhattacharya, Ritu Ghosh, Anjali Nanda |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-70-0 |
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Editors:
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Mário Macedo |
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Year:
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2012 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Healthcare, Telemedicine, health care infrastructure, health centre, Primary Health Care |
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Type:
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Reflection Paper |
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First Page:
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261 |
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Last Page:
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264 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Indias achievements in the field of health have been less than satisfactory and the healthcare delivery at the village level is constrained by lack of healthcare infrastructure, lack of doctors, lack of supply-chain and lack of appropriate monitoring of the existing healthcare infrastructure. This paper describes an innovative and visionary low cost health care infrastructure solution that can be rapidly rolled out to provide basic healthcare services along with tele-video medical consultation. It consists of a standard shipping container converted to a Micro Health Centre, that is connected to medical personnel through health cloud, to bring much needed preliminary healthcare to those in need. The objective is to equip the Micro Health Centre with basic diagnostic equipments that can be operated by paramedics or interns, along with specialist medical personnel providing expert interventions through remote medical consultation. It can have a network connectivity varying from 256 KBPA (via satellite) to 2 MBPS (via leased line). Furthermore it can be easily transported to remote rural areas as all supply-chains such as trucks, trains, roadways etc are aligned to handling shipping containers. The Micro Health Centre has been designed to provide healthcare, health education as well as medicines, thereby aiming at providing the basic health facilities to inaccessible areas. |
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