title: Arogyasree: an enhanced grid-based approach to mobile telemedicine.
abstract: A typical telemedicine system involves a small set of hospitals providing remote healthcare services to a small section of the society using dedicated nodal centers. However, in developing nations like India where majority live in rural areas that lack specialist care, we envision the need for much larger Internet-based telemedicine systems that would enable a large pool of doctors and hospitals to collectively provide healthcare services to entire populations. We propose a scalable, Internet-based P2P architecture for telemedicine integrating multiple hospitals, mobile medical specialists, and rural mobile units. This system, based on the store and forward model, features a distributed context-aware scheduler for providing timely and location-aware telemedicine services. Other features like zone-based overlay structure and persistent object space abstraction make the system efficient and easy to use. Lastly, the system uses the existing internet infrastructure and supports mobility at doctor and patient ends.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India.
authors.forename: Sriram
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kailasam
authors.forename: Santosh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Janakiram
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dharanipragada
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