Telemedicine practice guidelines of India, 2020: Implications and challenges.

Guidelines health care telemedicine telepsychiatry video consultation

Journal

Indian journal of psychiatry
ISSN: 0019-5545
Titre abrégé: Indian J Psychiatry
Pays: India
ID NLM: 0013255

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Historique:
received: 11 05 2020
revised: 06 06 2020
accepted: 06 07 2020
entrez: 4 6 2021
pubmed: 5 6 2021
medline: 5 6 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Telemedicine Guidelines of India, 2020 promises to pave a road map for regularization and diversification of teleconsultation services across the country. This guideline is the need of the hour, especially during the current coronavirus disease pandemic. All modes of communications (text, audio, video, etc.) between the service provider and user are included in the broad rubric of the guidelines. Scope, inclusions, exclusions, and restrictions are clearly specified in the guideline. Medications are grouped and listed for the specific type of consultation, and restricted drugs are notified. This guideline especially helps mitigate the gaps in legislation and reduces the uncertainty while providing a practical, safe, and cost-effective framework to improve healthcare service delivery in this article; the authors discuss the implications of this new guideline and the challenges during the implementation of teleconsultation services across the country.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34083829
doi: 10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_476_20
pii: IJPsy-63-97
pmc: PMC8106416
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

97-101

Informations de copyright

Copyright: © 2021 Indian Journal of Psychiatry.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

There are no conflicts of interest.

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Auteurs

Damodharan Dinakaran (D)

Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

Narayana Manjunatha (N)

Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

Channaveerachari Naveen Kumar (CN)

Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

Suresh Bada Math (SB)

Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

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