Health

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) can play a critical role in improving health care for individuals and communities addressing the above. The emerging role of ICT has created a huge impact on Healthcare. It mainly enhances the quality of Healthcare as well as the overall efficiency. ICT can be useful in Healthcare by increasing accessibility, improving communication, storing information methodologically and also by preventing medical errors. It has an impact on health education and medical research too.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine is one of the results of ICT developments in Healthcare. Telemedicine gives the benefit of accessing medical care to patients in remote locations quickly and more conveniently. It varies from sending an email to a real time video consultation. Teleradiology which is transferring medical images to a distance & Teleophthalmology which is transferring retinal images for specialized opinion are new branches of Telemedicine. With the advancement of ICT placement of Medical kiosk in public places may further increase the accessibility to Healthcare.

Telemedicine has several advantages such as:

1. Emergency Telemedicine
2. Home health medicine
3. Telemedicine Consultation
4. Telesurgery (Remote Surgery)
5. Medical Tele-training 

High Tech Machine

Today, there are numerous high tech machines which help us in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Diseases can be diagnosed at the early stages and the patients can be given treatment accordingly. Some examples of these machines are:

1.  CAT - Computerized Axial Tomography Machine
2. MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging Machine)
3. ECG - Electrocardiogram Machine