Online Medical Services: Silver Lining in Healthcare

As the burden of diseases in India is increasing, people are gaining more awareness and shifting their attention towards health. With wide acceptance to technology, India is advancing more towards e-health. Now what exactly is E-health? E-health is a wider term and a new face which involves the digitalization of healthcare world and the practice is supported by electronic means and communication such as online doctor help, online health records, tele-health support etc. Nowadays, there are portals that are even providing free consultation from online top doctors and also provide personalized cloud space for uploading free health records. In a country like India, people are actually facing the hassle of keeping the huge bundles of medical files, insurance cover files, diagnostic records etc. This is where maintaining medical records online steps in and is gaining wide acceptance among users.

E-health is of great use and advantage when it comes to taking a consultation for a major health condition such as any liver disease. People sitting in any part of the world can have an access to the healthcare cost in India and compare it with their home country. For eg, the cost of liver transplant treatment in india goes to as low as one-twentiethif compared with USA, UK and other European countries. This can in a great way help in reducing the overall costs of a person sitting in a different country.  Not only the people from abroad, but also the people sitting in India can benefit a lot from it and save their overall costs including staying and transportations costs. All we can say is online medical facility is a boon to healthcare in one or the other way.

A small effort gave a world of relief to a cancer patient

Every year my cousin from Australia visits home during the December holidays for more than a month. While most of time is spent sleeping, traveling, eating, getting hooked to Indian TV series and being horrified to how we drive on our roads, this year he is trying to do something useful.

His mother, a cancer survivor has been the subject of his attention. While she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and successfully went through surgery and chemotherapy, he always regrets not to having been around. So he sat down last week and began sorting all her medical reports and doctor prescriptions to feel the gravity of the horror his mother had been through. It took him a day to arrange all the papers into one file and a couple of hours to sort them in order. Then he took some time off to party.