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Navigating the Role of Regulations in Telemedicine: Bridging the Gap between Innovation, Quality of Care and Patient Protection

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  INTRODUCTION Telemedicine is defined as "the use of technology (computers, video, phone, messaging) by a healthcare professional to provide diagnosis and treatment to patients in a remote location." [1] It has been shown that telemedicine is quite useful, specifically in underserved populations, where there is a lack or insufficiency of clinical treatment in, for example, remote locations. Indeed, telemedicine and telehealth services, tried and tested to be reliable and cost-effective, are today very widely available in both the developed and developing world. [2] Although the term "telemedicine" was self-promotional, it came into being in India in the year 1999, and the country's government started realizing its potential in 2000. In the year 2001, ISRO introduced the country's first SATCOM-based telemedicine network. [3] It connected Apollo Hospital in Chennai to Apollo Rural Hospital in the hamlet of Aragonda in Andhra Pradesh. The Department of ...

WOMEN’S RIGHT AT WORKPLACE

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  INTRODUCTION “India has made significant economic progress in recent decades, including increasing GDP per capita. Four main variables, according to recent study, contribute to India's low—and possibly declining—FLFP rate: 1) the established patriarchal societal standards' pervasiveness, which restricts women's agency, mobility, and freedom to work; growing household incomes that, primarily based on the same standards in (, discourage women from entering the workforce; 3) The disproportionate amount of unpaid labour and unpaid caregiving that falls on women(4) The dearth of high-quality positions for women, which is exacerbated by gendered occupational segregation; and the sizeable gender wage disparity. [Image sources: Shutterstock] It is obvious that women's current underrepresentation in paid employment in India is not the result of a lack of motivation. Urban and rural Indian women who spend the majority of their time doing housekeeping state that they would be ...