Study and Overview on the Assessment of the Current States and Opportunities of Telemedicine in BD

UK Rahman¹

¹ Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mymensingh Institute of Science and Technology, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal
Vol.4 , Issue.6 , pp.1-9, Dec-2016

Online published on Dec 31, 2016

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Abstract :
This paper has examined the present conditions of Telemedicine services in Bangladesh and found the vital parameters that should be addressed to make this service useful for the rural people of Bangladesh. There are about 75% people live in rural areas where the healthcare facilities are very poor in Bangladesh. Telemedicine is an appropriate tool to serve the huge rural people of Bangladesh. We have conducted a survey through questionnaires on the expert doctors, village or local doctors, pharmacy owners and patients from different areas of Bangladesh. The survey was conducted on 500 targeted people of Bangladesh. From the survey we have found that 94.80% expert doctors, 74% local doctors, 91.42% patients and 80.32% pharmacy owners of Bangladesh want to introduce telemedicine services for the huge number of rural people of our country. This research also proposes the telemedicine operating cost in the range of 201-300 taka for the rural people of Bangladesh. Authors believe that the survey results can play an important role to implement a standard Telemedicine model for the people of Bangladesh.

Key-Words / Index Term :
telemedicine; R; diagnosis; plot; crp; dab; csv; dicot; times

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