A Telemedicine Network Model for Health Applications in Pakistan - Current Status and Future Prospects

Telemedicine is the way to provide better health care facilities to the people of the underprivileged unprocurable areas. As constraints on time and resources makes face to face consultation increasingly dearly-won, and telemedicine has the potential to produce major efficiencies in the symptomatic process. Therefore the goal of current research is to truss medicine with technology, and to produce a robust system that delivers an acceptable service at an appropriate price. In this paper, we mention the reasons why Pakistan needs telemedicine. We present the past and on-going activities and the projects on telemedicine in Pakistan. After analyzing those projects we propose a telemedicine network model which improves healthcare facilities in remote areas of Pakistan. Our proposed model consists of both store & forward and real mode of telemedicine operations. This model connects the small and ill-equipped hospitals located in rural areas to the large and well equipped hospitals and telemedicine centers in urban areas.