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Telemedicine A public IP project looking
for common outreach, common backbone so that medical care is available in
every remote nook and corner. This shall derive from an earlier work done by
the pioneering developers of Hindawi on Rural Telemedicine which was
published at a CSIR conference. Elder citizens and
physically challenged people often find themselves in situations where they
are dependent on others for mundane jobs relating to the monitoring of the
state of their organisms. Their impaired motor, sensory and cognitive skills
result in a difficulty to interact with their surroundings. This necessitates
the presence of an attendant, restricting their free movement, and often
leads to withdrawal and depressive symptoms. The situation can improve by the
presence of a real-time continuous health-monitoring system, providing the
target populace with much needed independence. There are many existing
systems that conform to this role. However, their usage is restricted owing
to lack of functionality, prohibitive costs, discomfiture in wearing, lack of
supporting infrastructure and, above all, an unintuitive interface. To answer these needs, a PC
based low-cost wearable health monitoring device along with a set of standard
protocols for maintaining centralized health monitoring stations has been
developed for providing remote monitoring and quality health care services to
the target population. It is scalable and adheres to industry standards in
telemedicine for information storage, retrieval and transmission. Since the
target population can only take partial care of themselves, the system has an
intuitive interface with speech and visual enhancements. It incorporates an
inbuilt Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) and lays the foundations for
a large-scale managed Community Healthcare Information Network (CHIN). Above
all, it is built from easily available components and offers a very low-cost
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