India's Tele-ICU Market Landscape: Who's Powering the Future of Remote Critical Care in India?
India’s ICUs operate at full capacity, especially outside the country’s metropolitan cities. District hospitals often run critical care wards with no intensivist, while rural India has only a tiny percentage of the ICU capacity found in urban India. In the past few years, a technology-based solution has evolved from a mere test to a product that exists on the market: Tele-ICU. What started as a series of pilot programs by some hospitals has developed into a more sophisticated ecosystem with various participants.
How Tele-ICU Actually Works
Tele-ICU is an ICU-specific telemedicine service, which involves a team of intensivists and ICU-trained nurses operating out of a distant command centre, who communicate with local ICU teams using vital signs feeds, high-definition video cameras, and two-way audio/video, in addition to medical record data.
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