The local health workers could facilitate the telemedicine services to the deserving people especially women, children and old people. The mobile phone based applications would help in data capture and support in providing services. The low cost mobile phone enabled ECGs are useful for the monitoring of heart patients.
echOpen
echOpen is an open and collaborative project and community,ledbyamultidisciplinarycoreofexperts and senior professionals with the aim of designing a functional low-cost (affordable) and open source echo-stethoscope (ultrasound probe) connected to a smartphone, allowing the radical transformation of diagnostic orientation in hospitals, general medicine and medically underserved areas. (Source: http://www.echopen.org/)
