10 articles

Telehealth & Remote Care

Teleconsultation, remote patient monitoring, tele-ICU, and home healthcare delivery.

Tele-Emergency Networks: Remote Triage and Tele-Stroke Paths

Connecting spoke hospitals to a tertiary centre for emergencies: the activation call, remote triage protocols, tele-stroke time windows, transfer decisions, pre-arrival handover, and the documentation each step has to leave behind.

Vandana Pillai

Jul 7, 2026 · 11 min read

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Remote Monitoring Devices: Integration, Thresholds and Alerts

Getting home vitals into the medical record is an ingestion problem with a clinical governance problem attached. Bluetooth devices and gateways, normalising readings, setting thresholds that do not drown the team, and who actually responds at two in the morning.

Ishaan Grover

Jun 23, 2026 · 11 min read

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Telemedicine Records That Survive a Medico-Legal Challenge

What a teleconsultation record must contain to hold up before a consumer commission or a medical council: identity, consent, mode, clinical reasoning, prescription, retention and audit trail, plus the four places hospital records usually fail.

Dr. Tejas Kulkarni

Jun 9, 2026 · 11 min read

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Teleconsultation Software: Extend the HMS or Buy a Platform

An architecture decision for hospital IT: build teleconsultation into the existing HMS or bolt on a standalone platform. Patient identity, billing integration, record capture, ABDM linkage, and the hidden costs that decide it either way.

Ishaan Grover

May 26, 2026 · 11 min read

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Hospital at Home: Patient Selection, Escalation and Logistics

A hospital-at-home programme is an admission delivered in a house, and it lives or dies on selection criteria and escalation rules. Patient eligibility, the daily visit schedule, equipment and drug logistics, deterioration triggers, and when to readmit.

Vandana Pillai

May 12, 2026 · 11 min read

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Remote Patient Monitoring in India: Who Actually Pays

There is no reimbursement code for remote monitoring in India, so the revenue has to come from somewhere else. Self-pay subscriptions, bundled post-discharge packages, corporate and insurer pilots, and what scheme coverage does and does not fund.

Vandana Pillai

Apr 28, 2026 · 10 min read

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Tele-ICU Network Design: Hub, Spokes and Escalation Rules

A tele-ICU is a staffing and governance design that happens to use video. Command centre layout, intensivist-to-bed ratios, bandwidth and redundancy, escalation protocols with spoke sites, and a lower-cost variant for a mid-size hospital group.

Ishaan Grover

Apr 14, 2026 · 11 min read

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Medicines Allowed in Teleconsultation in India: List O, A and B

Which drugs a doctor may prescribe remotely depends on the consultation mode, whether it is a first consult or a follow-up, and which annexed list the medicine sits on. A scannable decision guide, plus how to build the rules into the prescribing screen.

Dr. Tejas Kulkarni

Mar 31, 2026 · 10 min read

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Teleconsultation Consent Under NMC Rules and the DPDP Act

Telemedicine consent and data-protection consent are two different obligations that most hospitals collect once and satisfy neither. This is a capture specification: what to display, what to store, how recording consent differs, and what the audit trail must show.

Dr. Tejas Kulkarni

Mar 17, 2026 · 11 min read

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NMC Telemedicine Practice Guidelines: A Hospital Checklist

The Telemedicine Practice Guidelines bind individual practitioners, but the failures show up at institutional level. Here is how a hospital with dozens of consulting doctors turns them into an SOP, a training record, and a defensible teleconsultation service.

Dr. Tejas Kulkarni

Mar 3, 2026 · 11 min read