The role of telemedicine in modern health care

With the continuous improvement and development of modern network information technology and the continuous improvement of people's demands for health care, the traditional health care model has evolved, giving birth to a new telemedicine health care model. Telemedicine refers to the comprehensive application of information technology for medical information transmission and long-distance communication between different places. And this is not cost effective, and in this telemedicine process there is both benefits and disadvantages. Urban medical centres have used telemedicine to expand access to specialist services by centralizing health care providers to assist patients seen by their primary care providers. This paper provides a what is telemedicine, how telemedicine works, telemedicine in India, the future of telemedicine, present scenario of telemedicine, Origin and development of telemedicine, Telecommunication standards, applied areas, Designing Telemedicine Approaches to Succeed, Types, challenges, goals, advantages and disadvantages of telemedicine and concludes with some importance of Telemedicine.