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Ungarala Satyanarayana, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology Satyanarayana Ungarala Asian Institute of Gastroenterology Hyderabad - India The 7th Asia Telemedicine Symposium, 2013 1

Ungarala Satyanarayana, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology “There’s a huge, unmet health care need in our rural areas. The challenge is to make health care affordable for the masses....” The 7th Asia Telemedicine Symposium, 2013 2

Ungarala Satyanarayana, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology Rural Healthcare Programme Research Robotic surgery in Gastroenterology CME, Live workshops, DNB classes APAN Programmes RURAL HEALTHCARE PROJECT Talukdar R, Reddy DN - Endoscopy 2012 The 7th Asia Telemedicine Symposium, 2013 3

Ungarala Satyanarayana, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology AIG Mobile Healthcare Telemedicine Unit The 7th Asia Telemedicine Symposium, 2013 4

Ungarala Satyanarayana, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology RESEARCH : PANCREATIC ISLET CELL TRANSPLANTATION The 7th Asia Telemedicine Symposium, 2013 5

Ungarala Satyanarayana, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology PATHOLOGY ROBOTIC SURGERY The 7th Asia Telemedicine Symposium, 2013 6

Ungarala Satyanarayana, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology CME / WORKSHOPS: MEDICAL / SURGICAL The 7th Asia Telemedicine Symposium, 2013 7

Ungarala Satyanarayana, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology APAN PROGRAMMES The 7th Asia Telemedicine Symposium, 2013 8

Ungarala Satyanarayana, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology PATIENT COUNCELLING The 7th Asia Telemedicine Symposium, 2013 9

Ungarala Satyanarayana, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology FAILURES  Expensive satellite connectivity  inadequate or unreliable Internet connectivity with limited bandwidth  underdeveloped infrastructure  lack of technical expertise  linguistic and cultural differences between patients and service providers  unstable power supplies  issues related to PAL to NTSC and 16 to 12 bit audio conversion The 7th Asia Telemedicine Symposium, 2013 10

Ungarala Satyanarayana, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology Connectivity problem between AIG & APAN group as we use commercial network • More advanced technology should be developed for helping the NGO’s in providing better health care for rural population. • Local government and private sectors to come forward in establishing Telemedicine projects. • We are looking towards our FORUM to help us in getting Educational Research Network connection because of which, many times we could not participate in many of APAN group meetings, live, particularly when we use DVTS PLUS • And a technology which can work in low band width for connecting rural areas which is of main concern in Asia. The 7th Asia Telemedicine Symposium, 2013 11

Ungarala Satyanarayana, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology Thank you The 7th Asia Telemedicine Symposium, 2013 12