Abstract: Telemedicine offers a method to bridge the healthcare access gap in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) by connecting providers with patients using appropriate technology. Here we describe the design and development of a novel modular telemedicine platform, Intelehealth, that would enable health systems to connect remote doctors with patients in rural clinics using a customizable Android-based platform and a cloud-based electronic health record system at the backend (OpenMRS). This open source platform enables task shifting of medically relevant information gathering by a local health worker, the transmission of this information to a remote doctor, and a telephonic conversation between the doctor and the patient that subsequently allows for the delivery of an appropriate therapeutic plan. Intelehealth is designed to operate on a low bandwidth internet environment and will be tested and validated in rural health clinics in India.

URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8037404

N. A. Goel, A. A. Alam, E. M. R. Eggert and S. Acharya, “Design and development of a customizable telemedicine platform for improving access to healthcare for underserved populations,” 2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Jeju, Korea (South), 2017, pp. 2658-2661, doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037404.