AIIMS Bhopal Telemedicine Centre is conducting regular Tele-education session for its faculty members and staffs. Utilising the wide network of institutes of National important AIIMS Bhopal Telemedicine Centre strives to commit itself for continuous progress in education which can be translated into better patient care and healthy society.The development of the process of distance education (regulated or unregulated), based on the use of information and telecommunication technologies, that make interactive, flexible and accessible learning possible for any potential recipient. We are a part of following medical tele-education networks :

1. National Medical College Network (NMCN) – Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India is implementing a green field project on ehealth including Telemedicine on National Medical College Network (NMCN) for interlinking the Medical Colleges across the country with the purpose of e-Education and National Rural Telemedicine Network for e-Healthcare delivery. Considerable amount of effort has already been undertaken to give a shape to the project. Locations for the National Resource Centers and Regional Resource Centers for NMCN have been defined. and the medical colleges to be linked to these five regional centers have also been worked out. Communication from MOHFW had been sent to all the states and UTs to provide the list of medical colleges to be networked and nominate a faculty member from each medical college as Nodal Officer for Telemedicine. High speed optic fiber based internet bandwidth been deployed under National Knowledge Network Project in as many as 150 medical colleges around the country. Many Medical Institutions have migrated to NKN backbone to enhance their capacity of telemedicine activity using telemedicine platform deployed by Central and State government agencies.

The list of 50 Medical Colleges shortlisted under 1st phase of NMCN are as follows:

Sources : www.nmcn.in

2. ISRO Tele-Education Network - To supplement the curriculum-based teaching, imparting effective teacher training, providing access to quality resource persons and new technologies, thus finally resulting in taking education to every nook and corner of India. EDUSAT provided connectivity to schools, colleges and higher levels of education and also supported non-formal education including development communication.

3. One-To-One Tele-Guest Lecture - Telemedicine Centre AIIMS Bhopal has started routine guest lecture through the video conferencing facilities by eminent teachers, clinicians and scientist from National Important institutes across the country to improve the inter institutional interaction, patient care and medical education in 2016.

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Being an apex level medical facility AIIMS Bhopal is witnessing increasing patient foot fall on its premises every day. This poses a challenge of insuring medical care commensurate to the level of infirmity and at the same time achieving satisfaction for all. AIIMS administration has undertaken several steps in this regard like E- hospital, Smart Queue management system and in house Triage clinics run by CFM department. Telemedicine centre AIIMS Bhopal has initiated the facility of tele follow up clinics in collaboration with the major clinical departments namely General Medicine, Paediatrics, General Surgery, Orthopaedics, ENT. Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Respiratory Medicine since these departments together see the largest number of patients attendance.

After initial face to face visits in hospital, patients in consultation with respective treating physician may choose to do his/her follow up through speciality Tele-Follow Up clinics by calling “Doorastha chikitsa Kendra” toll free number 1800-233-1104 on a specified day and time as per schedule. Patients may share their Outpatient records, investigation reports as well as images on "DSK APP" (Under Construction) for better communication with their physicians.The schedule of tele-followup clinics is provided here.

Specialist Tele follow up Clinics Schedule

Health communication is the study and practice of communicating promotional health information, such as in public health campaigns,health videos content, health education, and between doctor and patient. The purpose of disseminating health information is to influence personal health choices by improving health literacy.Because effective health communication must be tailored for the audience and the situation, research into health communication seeks to refine communication strategies to inform people about ways to enhance health or to avoid specific health risks.Academically,health communication is a discipline within communication studies.

Health communication may variously seek to:
1. Increase audience knowledge and awareness of a health issue.
2. Influence behaviors and attitudes towards a health issue
3. Demonstrate the benefits of behavior changes to public health outcomes
4. Advocate a position on a health issue or policy
5. Increase demand or support for health services
6. Argue against misconceptions about health

Health Communication is an enigma that is detrimental to the healthcare world and to the resulting health of a patient. Communication is an activity that involves oral speech, voice, tone, nonverbal body language, listening and more. It is a process for a mutual understanding to come at hand during interpersonal connections. A patient’s communication with their healthcare team and vice versa, affects the outcome of their health. Strong, clear, and positive relationships with physicians can chronically improve and increase the condition of a certain patient. Using the entertainment industry and social media i.e. youtube, facebook , Twitter as a platform for advocating health information and education is a communication strategy that has become increasingly popular. The most utilized strategy is for health communication professionals to create partnerships with storyline creators so that public health information can be incorporated into within the plot of a television show and You Tube Video Library.

Telemedicine Centre where an ISRO Telemedicine Satellite unit is installed which is worked in store-and-forward mode or in asynchronous mode and involves for acquiring medical data i.e medical history of patients, images, etc. and then transmitting this data from district hospital to Super-specialist hospital at convenient time and later for assessment offline. Under this unit, ISRO provided necessary technical guideline and equipment for establishing the centre.

The AIIMS Bhopal ISRO telemedicine node consists of a Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT System), Video conferencing equipment with terrestrial support of up to 128 Kbps of bandwidth and linked via INSAT satellites with 3 State Medical Colleges and 14 district hospitals earlier. However, the tele-consultation facility can be taken from any one of nodes (Super Specialty or District Hospital) which have the setup across the country.

1. Continuous Medical Education & Clinical Grand Round: For health professionals and special medical education seminars for individuals and groups used for conducting community development programs and imparting knowledge to the medical/ paramedical staff involved in the delivery of healthcare services.

2. Patient Consultations: Audio, video, and data are shared between a patient and physician for the purpose of rendering a diagnosis and subsequent treatment plan.

3. Tele-Education: the development of the process of distance education (regulated or unregulated), based on the use of information and telecommunication technologies, that make interactive, flexible and accessible learning possible for any potential recipient.

4. Remote patient monitoring: Uses special devices to remotely collect and send data to a monitoring station for interpretation. This could include checking vital signs, such as blood glucose or heart ECG. This is usually accomplished with specialty hardware devices and with integrated/fixed communications capabilities.