The Elder Health Information Technology Framework for Geriatric Care in Rural India: A Policy Initiative ()
ABSTRACT
Healthcare monitoring and analysis of healthcare parameters is a reality
to reduce costs and increase access to specialist and experts that holds the
future for geriatric care in India. This paper proposes distinct methods
towards the implementation of rural elder health information technologies (IT),
which includes electronic medical records, clinical decision support, mobile
medical applications, and software driven medical devices used in the diagnosis
or treatment of disease for the older adult population in the villages of
India. The purpose is online patient
satisfaction at the microlevel (village panchayat) through methods accessible and affordable by
establishing a common standard of operations at the village primary care units
giving way to early disease detection and routine screening among the aged
population avoiding institutionalization. The rural elder health IT framework
is of great interest for all stakeholders in the field, as it benefits the
investors and the consumers, adding to the technological infrastructure,
thereby opening new avenues of research in health informatics, telemedicine and
enhancing the scope of geriatric research, which in turn enhances the
health-related quality of life for the rural older adults in the remote
villages of the nation.
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Sen, K. and Ingman, S. (2021) The Elder Health Information Technology Framework for Geriatric Care in Rural India: A Policy Initiative.
Communications and Network,
13, 12-24. doi:
10.4236/cn.2021.131002.