Context
Defence Minister recently launched ‘Services e-Health Assistance & Tele-consultation (SeHAT) OPD portal to provide tele-medicine services to the serving Armed Forces personnel, veterans and their families.
About the portal
- It has been developed by CDAC Mohali and HQ Integrated Defence Staff.
- SeHAT is a patient to doctor system, initially for a general OPD consultation and proposed to be extended to specialist OPD consultation subsequently.
- SeHATOPD is based on eSanjeevani - Government of India's flagship telemedicine technology developed by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (Mohali), run by the MoHFW for all citizens.
- eSanjeevani - a doctor to doctor telemedicine system is being deployed nationally at 155,000 Health and Wellness Centres.
- Further eSanjeevaniOPD is also based on eSanjeevani telemedicine technology.
- eSanjeevaniOPD enables citizens to access healthcare services in the confines of their homes.
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Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
- Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is the premier R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) for carrying out R&D in IT & E (Information Technologies and Electronics) and associated areas.
- C-DAC is working on strengthening national technological capabilities in the context of global developments in the field and responding to change in the market need in selected foundation areas.
- In that process, C-DAC represents a unique facet working in close junction with MeitY to realize nation’s policy and pragmatic interventions and initiatives in Information Technology.
Headquarter Integrated Defence Staff
- HQ IDS has been established on 23 Nov 2001.
- The organisation is headed by the chief of integrated Defence Staff to the Chairman COSC (CISC) who enjoys a status equivalent to that of Vice Chief of a Service.
- The organisation has representation from all three services, MEA, DRDO and DoD and Def (Finance)
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Key-features
Salient features of this patient friendly web based Defence Service are:
- Patient registration
- Token Generation
- Queue Management
- Audio-Video Consultation with a Doctor
- ePrescription
- SMS/Email Notifications
- Armed Forces Medical Services Doctors
- Free Service
- Fully configurable (no. of daily slots, no. of doctors/clinics, waiting room slots, consultation time limit etc).
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The defence minister also talked about the anti-Covid oral drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) developed by the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), a leading laboratory of the DRDO, in collaboration with Dr Reddy's Laboratories (DRL), Hyderabad.
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Telemedicine
- As per World Health Organisation, telemedicine is the delivery of health care services, where distance is a critical factor, by all health care professionals using IT for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease and injuries, research and evaluation, etc, all in the interests of advancing the health of individuals and their communities.
Teleconsultation
- Teleconsultation is one of the applications of telemedicine.
- Teleconsultations use IT to facilitate communications between a patient and a doctor who are otherwise geographically separated. National Teleconsultation Service of Govt. of India enables teleconsultations over the Internet.
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