Tele-ICU services in India

There is a vast gap in quality healthcare expertise between rural and urban areas. Typically, over 70% of India’s population resides in rural and semi-urban areas; thereby creating a vast demand for care of critically ill patients in these areas. To make matters worse, the number of Intensivists in these areas is deficient.

Today, we do witness a reasonable amount of healthcare expansion up to semi-urban areas with small hospitals growing, but unfortunately, there is a shortage of specialist doctors who treat critically ill patients. Here, technology is used as an enabler to connect, monitor, and treat patients in remote locations, increasing doctor’s efficiency, minimizing patient movements, and their financial constraints.

Tele- ICU has t h e potential to link all semi-urban/urban hospitals to  Tertiary care ICUs and improve the ICU services of these remote hospitals, thus, ensuring better care and services to these communities.

ATHS is connecting Apollo Reach (secondary care) hospital ICUs to that of its own Tertiary Care hospitals. Similarly, it is connecting other smaller hospital ICUs to Apollo Tertiary Care Hospital ICUs in an endeavor is to provide better Intensive Care to patients by supporting the doctors at the point of care.