UST Global Unveils Telemedicine Application for Mobile Devices in Collaboration with Dr. Balabhai Nanavati Hospital (BNH) Telemedicine Centre and BlackBerry India
By providing a holistic view of patients’ health history, the app enables access to advanced healthcare consultation from qualified healthcare providers for the people in rural areas
New Delhi, Delhi, India:
UST Global, an information technology solutions and services company for Global 1000 enterprises, today unveiled an advanced Telemedicine application, conceptualized by Dr. Pavan Kumar, Head of Dept. of Cardiovascular Surgery and Telemedicine centre, Nanavati Super Specialty Hospital, in collaboration with BlackBerry India.
Telemedicine for mobile devices, developed by UST Global, is a BlackBerry10 based mobile application that uses telecommunication in order to enable staff to provide clinical health care at remote locations. The application helps to eliminate distance barriers and to improve access to medical specialists that would often not be consistently available in distant rural communities.
Dr. Pavan Kumar said, “This app development is going to replace Desktop Telemedicine solutions to Mobile Devices, giving people power to get health care in their hands through Mobile Smart phones. This collaboration reinforces our continued focus towards improving the health and well being of India by providing an innovative solution with high quality and secure BlackBerry platform services.”
He continued, “According to an IMS study, 40-45% reduction in expenditures of rural patients’ treatments can be achieved by addressing the problem of physical accessibility of healthcare facilities. We believe in partnering with our community and UST Global to address this issue and providing them with sustainable solutions through our services”.
“This telemedicine mobile application will reduce the urban-rural divide to support inclusive growth. We believe it will transform the way healthcare services are made available to rural communities and address two major challenges – that of access to qualified doctors and affordable treatment without the need for patients to travel to cities,” said, Gilroy Mathew, General Manager- Asia, UST Global.
In this application, the remote clinic staff enters the visiting patients’ demographics, vital signs, illness details, preliminary diagnosis information, and uploads existing medical reports. The assigned doctor reviews the patient details and performs consultation with the patient remotely using a video session launched through BlackBerry Messenger (BBMTM). He provides the final opinion and uploads the prescription via the application. The remote clinic staff downloads and hands over a printed copy of the prescription to the patient.
The telemedicine mobile application, available on BlackBerry 10 Devices, offers enhanced security using BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES10). UST Global plans to make the application available on other mobile platforms and integrate with various medical devices to allow the doctor to perform real-time diagnostics of the patient remotely. More advanced features like integration with Google Glass are also planned for future release.
About Telemedicine Centre, Dr. Balabhai Nanavati Hospital, Mumbai
Telemedicine centre, Nanavati Hospital is the largest Telemedicine service provider in western India with its network of 78 peripheral centres in India & 35 in African Countries. Centre’s activities have been recognized by many institutions by different awards for its research activity and providing best healthcare to rural population through Telemedicine services. It has conducted over 10,000 Tele-consultations & over 500 lectures since 2006. Centre was pioneer in developing ECG on BlackBerry smart phones in 2011. Centre is currently engaged in developing Telemedicine Mobile App. and BES (BlackBerry enterprise solutions) in healthcare Institutions.
