ABSTRACT
Telementoring – mentoring through the use of telecommunication – provides access to more experienced staff. Public health care in India is primarily a responsibility of the state or province. The health system has a three-tiered structure: the primary health care centres cover a group of villages, secondary level health centres are at district level and medical colleges, located in big cities, provide tertiary care. The Department of Information Technology has produced guidelines and standards for the practice of telemedicine in India, which are aimed at enhancing interoperability among the various telemedicine systems being set up in the country. Telemedicine has increasingly been used to solve certain health care problems faced by the developing world, but there is a paucity of published reports. Common health care delivery problems faced by developing countries are infrastructural and organizational in nature. Infrastructural problems include unreliable electricity supplies, poor telephone services, lack of transport and lack of medical supplies.
