A study of service providers’ perspective towards telemedicine in punjab

Author: 
Gagandeep Kaur and Dhiraj Sharma

Telemedicine has emerged as a new mean of communication for patients residing in rural and remote area to get consultation from super specialist doctor thorough videoconferencing. Government has opened various telemedicine centres to provide healthcare services to rural population of Punjab. Efforts have been made to make telemedicine as alternative model of healthcare but it has not gain so much popularity among the practitioners. The present research work aims to study the perspective of service providers of telemedicine services in government hospital about the issues rest related various facilities being provided in the telemedicine centres. The study is based upon survey on 25 telemedicine centres of Punjab and data was collected through semi structured questionnaire. The study highlighted significant factors which played important role in success of telemedicine services.

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DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2018.11786.2052
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