Healthcare technology innovation company eHealth Access Pvt. Ltd has developed an Advanced Telemedicine Technology, with the launch of a first-of-its-kind Virtual Medical Kiosk. The company views it as a breakthrough technology innovation which enables patient-doctor consultation in a secure environment.

Patients and doctors can communicate through phone, web cams, video conferencing, messaging, or chat. The Virtual Medical Kiosk is embedded with a touch screen system, audio-video capabilities, diagnostic equipment, scanner and medical management software capable to record personal health data to give a real-life experience through a proprietary platform developed by eHealth Access, that facilitates on-demand, real-time consultations with medical professionals any time of day. eHealth feels that Bangalore with its large tech-savvy population is most strongly poised to adopt to this new technology.

Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights mandates right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being. As India stands on the cusp of becoming one of the growth engines of the world, 65 per cent of its population does not have access to modern medicine, only 13 per cent have access to a primary healthcare centres and less than 10 per cent have access to a hospital. It is even worse if one looks at the rural/urban divide: about 80 per cent of doctors, 75 per cent of dispensaries and 60 per cent of hospitals are located in urban areas, said Jayadeep Reddy, CEO and founder, eHealth Access.

“It is this anomaly that we want to change. Access to a primary healthcare system in India is perceived a challenge, the Virtual Medical Kiosk devised by eHealth Access aims to change this perception forever,” added the eHealth Access CEO and founder.

According to Ramprabhu TK, co-founder and technology director, eHealth Access, there is limited access to doctors in major portions of semi-urban and rural India. The medical kiosk will act as a bridge to bring the medical practitioner closer to the people in need for medical consultation. Using technology as an enabler and accelerator we are leveraging the massive penetration of mobile and internet usage with technology innovations in connected devices and help doctors reach out to more patients. This will be the corner-stone for making India Healthy by 2020.

Now eHealth is looking at penetrating and serving a wider mass of population. The Virtual Medical Kiosk also aims to reach out as a channel to help Government towards the implementation of Universal Health Care programme (UHC) with the help of NGOs in remote places. Further, the Virtual Medical Kiosk serves as the second phase in eHealth’s efforts to help patients connect seamlessly to doctors via its service through a website dialurdoctor.