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information and medical advice is available. The
limitation of provisions for medical services in
rural Bangladesh is many fold, in particular lack
of transport access and financial constraints due
to lack of resources for infrastructure, shortage
of doctors and their lack of motivation to work
in rural areas. However, despite limited resources
to most parts of the country, telecommunications
facilities are relatively well developed. National
and international telephone links are available in
the most parts of the country and internet can be
accessed from most of villages of Bangladesh.
The mobile telecommunication system in Ban-
gladesh has developed to a great extent in the last
few years and the result is the increased use of mo-
bile phones everywhere including the rural areas.
The mobile set required for this proposed system is
becoming more available in developing countries
day by day. Its cost is also reducing which has a
greater possibility for becoming available in rural
areas also. Moreover, the price of the biomedical
sensors or medical device used in our system is
also reducing with the chance of increasing avail-
ability. Hence for Bangladesh telecommunications
can provide a solution to meet health information
need and provide a solution to health problems in
rural areas through the system. The system could
enable medical expertise to be accessed by local
medical practitioners from district and central
hospitals using telecommunications as well as
opening the possibility to allow access to universal
health information. The implementation of such
type system is at initial stage, may not be able to
provide quality assurances for the rural mass but
it could provide solutions to emergency medical
assistance, long distance consultation, distance
medical education and supervision over space and
time for basic yet fatal, common and preventable.
and the potential for immediate data analysis to
provide advanced decision support. One of the
principles underlying the system is to support
self-management. This system addresses the
issue of co-ordination of care between multiple
clinicians and medical facilities. The patient has
control over transmission of data. However, some
of the disadvantages of report records overcome
by this system are the immediate capture of data
without need for transcription, immediate access
to the information by all involved in care through
a web browser, and availability of the record at
any patient contact.
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CONCLUSION
The Telemedicine system described here pro-
vides data transfer between clinician and patient,
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