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Assisted Telemedicine Model for Rural Healthcare Ecosystem

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A project involving study and field trials to analyze and validate the relevance and feasibility of an “Assisted Telemedicine” model towards addressing the accessibility gaps in the rural primary healthcare ecosystem. The work also involved designing a blue-print of an Assisted Telemedicine app for catering to the healthcare consultation needs during and beyond Covid-19 in a participatory design model. A customized app was created for “assisted telemedicine” model and features were incrementally added based on observations and inputs received from various stakeholders. Initial studies indicate that this model of health care delivery can benefit a range of demographics and can find acceptance among the different stakeholders. The potential impact of this intervention is also studied from the perspective of Capability Approach.

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Tsinghua University, China

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