REVOLUTIONARY PRACTICE OF PROVIDING THE DRUG IN RURAL AREA THROUGH TELEMEDICINE

Tripathi Devika*, Chaudhary Nandini, Gupta Harshita, Dwivedi Divya

Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Utter Pradesh, India

ABSTRACT

The utility of Telecommunication technologies and their information has developed at a rapid rate, which has a strong impact on healthcare delivery in many countries. Telepharmacy define as healthcare services that enable pharmaceutical services, such as patients counseling, medication review, and prescription verification under qualified pharmacists for the patients situated in a remotely located healthcare center and hospital. In India, there have been a large number of badly equipped hospitals with a limited number of specialists. The telemedicine plays a potential role in avoiding the frame of travel helps in timely getting specialist advice to remote areas, reducing the cost, and provide an opportunity to learn about healthcare. Thus, this article showed revolutionized the practice of Telepharmacy by providing medical services mostly in rural areas. This review summarizes some of the case study done on Telepharmacy i.e. Express ECG study support the cardiac patient by the execution of the telemedicine process with expert command in a quick and quality response. And the second case study focuses to analyze the best practices and challenges faced at Apollo Hospitals by introducing telemedicine in the Indian setting. Lastly, the third case study represents the mobile phone-based telemedical health care represents an economically viable option that shows the result of the Indian communication revolution and also is integrated into the urban healthcare and national rural mission programs. Hence, this review highlighted advanced technology that can change the practice of pharmacy essential for both the hospitals, rural communities, and retail pharmacies that deliver these services.

Keywords:

Tele-pharmacy, Healthcare services, Pharmacist, Challenges, Clinical benefits