Remote Care
Seventy three-year-old M.P. Subramanian hails from Narikunni, a small town in Kerala’s Calicut district. A diabetic and a heart patient, Subramanian has to visit his endocrinologist once in every two months. All was going well until the lockdown made travelling to the hospital, around 20 kilometres from his home, difficult. Fortunately, two months ago, the hospital introduced telemedicine consultation. “I booked an appointment, logged in, showed my test results, explained my alignments and the doctor made necessary changes to my medicines, through my mobile phone,” says Subramanian. “I did not have to travel and get exposed to the virus, but still could get my routine check-up done at the click of a button, thanks to technology,” he adds.
The Remote Healthcare Market
GLOBALLY… $66.5 BILLION Estimated market size in 2030 compared to $6.7 bn in 2019
… AND IN INDIA $679.2 MILLION Estimated market size in 2024 from $201.3 mn in 2019
Source: Report Ocean; F&S
At Sri Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, 400 km from Calicut, Syngo Virtual Cockpit, a remote scanning software from Siemens Healthineers, helps technicians and doctors perform scanning while maintaining social distancing. “Usually, for MRI studies,
