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India has crossed a landmark milestone in its eHealth journey. eSanjeevani telemedicine service of the Health Ministry has crossed 1 million (10 lakh) tele-consultations

About eSanjeevani

The eSanjeevani is a telemedicine service which is implemented under Ayushman Bharat health initiative for doctor-to-doctor interaction.

Aim

To provide healthcare services to patients in their homes. Safe & structured video-based clinical consultations between a doctor in a hospital and a patient in the confines of his home are being enabled.

eSanjeevaniOPD 

eSanjeevaniOPD – Stay Home OPD has been developed by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Mohali. Salient features of this citizen friendly web-based National Teleconsultation Service (eSanjeevaniOPD) are:

1. Patient registration
2. Token Generation
3. Queue Management
4. Audio-Video Consultation with a Doctor
5. ePrescription
6. SMS/Email Notifications
7. Serviced by State’s Doctors
8. Free Service
9. Fully configurable (no. of daily slots, no. of doctors/clinics, waiting room slots, consultation time limit etc).

eSanjeevaniOPD is based on eSanjeevani - Government of India's flagship telemedicine technology developed by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (Mohali). eSanjeevani - a doctor to doctor telemedicine system is being deployed nationally for the Miinistry of Health & Family Welfare at 155,000 Health and Wellness Centres under Ayushman Bharat Scheme of Government of India.

Source: PIB