Karnataka State (India) Telemedicine Project-Operational Phase

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has implemented the Karnataka Telemedicine Project-Operational Phase, to bring multi-specialty healthcare, to a significant section of the rural population of the state of Karnataka, India. Technology wise, this network would be state-of-the-art and unique. This network would also serve as a model for the utilization of “Healthsat” proposed for launch in the future. In this phase the state-of-the-art “Server/Browser-based, Multi-point-to-Multi-point” type of Telemedicine System/Network (provided by TeleVital) is put into operation. This Multi-Specialty Network has a network consisting of a pool of specialty hospitals. Under this network specialty hospitals for Oncology, Gynaecology, Nephrology, etc provides telemedicine service to various district hospital across Karnataka.