Open AccessThe Widening Scope of Telemedicine in India: Delving into Its Economic Aspects and Haptic Technology
Author(s) -
Shonal Rath
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of modern trends in science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2455-3778
DOI - 10.46501/ijmtst0706027
Subject(s) - telemedicine , scope (computer science) , haptic technology , health care , stakeholder , business , pandemic , videoconferencing , public relations , covid-19 , computer science , multimedia , political science , medicine , economic growth , simulation , economics , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , programming language
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected our nation and economy gravely, which has led to exploiting ways of settingnorms for the effective distribution of healthcare advancements beyond geographical boundaries. In this paper, we propose anapproach for the rapid advancement and effective distribution of healthcare in India through the enormous potential intelemedicine and haptic technology. We further address the issues in India's current healthcare infrastructure occurring due tonon-availability and vacancy of doctors, social development, such as the willingness of people to invest in telemedicine bystatistically analyzing bar diagrams, tabulated data, and self-assembled visual graphics. Our study shows that the potential oftechnology-aided approaches such as telemedicine and haptic systems in healthcare is enormous, and through effectivedissemination of awareness, training, and stakeholder involvement, telemedicine and haptics could change the norms in theadvancement in the healthcare system of India