Revolutionizing Healthcare Telemedicine's Global Technological Integration

Abstract

The pursuit of universal and high-quality healthcare services is a fundamental obligation of any responsible state, yet India faces persistent challenges in achieving this goal despite governmental efforts and policies. Notably, the 65th World Health Assembly emphasized universal health coverage (UHC) as pivotal for global public health advancement. Addressing this, a 2010 high-level expert group identified impediments in UHC implementation, highlighting issues such as health financing, infrastructure, skilled human resources, and access to medicines. This study focuses on exploring telemedicine's potential to mitigate these challenges and become instrumental in realizing universal health coverage in India. It aims to scrutinize government plans, critically assess policies on telemedicine implementation, and propose effective integration models, particularly in rural areas, to facilitate UHC. Additionally, the research aims to examine the role of AI, ML, deep learning, and neutral networks within telemedicine, envisaging their contribution to augmenting telemedicine's efficacy towards achieving universal health coverage in India.