While telemedicine is a strong and powerful technology to help patients through video calls also in rural areas at a lower cost still there are several challenges of telemedicine in India. Telemedicine has become necessary for the covid-19 pandemic, where technology helps us to fight this pandemic. Telemedicine makes work easier and has become essential for upcoming years. A decade ago, many people were not aware of telemedicine, the internet and smartphones. The concept of telemedicine is still unknown to many people. Telemedicine concept is still at growing stage in India. A majority of the rural audience is not aware of telemedicine. Even people who are aware of telemedicine are still not utilizing it due to access barriers. They have no idea that providers are able to serve treatment to patients in remote areas via telemedicine.
DICOM stands for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine.
These are some sort of images needed for the exchange of information on health grounds.
It has positively consumed the healthcare industry and made patient care more promising.
Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine is abbreviated as DICOM.
It is a global protocol to be followed whiles the exchange of medical information.
The data are generally shared in image formats.
