A frugal and innovative telemedicine approach for rural India – automated doctor machine

摘要

Rural India is very poorly connected when compared to urban. Most of the developments have not yet reached rural India and most importantly, in healthcare, it lacks good hospitals and sometimes they even don't have a good dispensary. Even when there are hospitals, rural people never get experienced doctors. We know that rural people are more affected by many challenging diseases every year. To compensate all these problems and to provide a good healthcare even in rural villages we introduce an automated doctor machine. This machine can be installed easily anywhere and also include all the required input sensors inbuilt to diagnose the condition of the patient and also provide a diagnosis report with medicines. The patient's health report is updated in the health record database in his cloud account once he receives the medicine. So, when he meets the doctor in future, the doctor can easily get his up to date health record and can also use the web app to update his health record. This is all frugal, cost-effective and fault tolerant.