Riding high on the success of its pilot teleradiology facility, introduced at Pathanamthitta, HLL Lifecare Limited (HLL) is all set to expand its world-class radio diagnostic services to more hospitals and diagnostic centres across the country.
Among the leading healthcare products manufacturing and delivery company in India, HLL recently signed an agreement with Kerala Medical Services Corporation Limited to provide affordable radio diagnostic facilities through government hospitals where tele-medicine linkages have been established.
Teleradiology utilises standard network technologies, like the Internet, telephone lines and cloud networks for transferring radiological patient images, such as X-ray, CT and MRI, from one location to another. The idea was borne out of rising imbalance between the demand for imaging procedures and the availability of professionals in this field.
HLL's teleradiology is currently supported by a network of around 20 well-trained radiologists located in and outside Kerala who receive radiological images from various hospitals through the Internet. After examining the images, these off-location radiologists send the report back to the hospitals and scanning centres.
The company, a central undertaking under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, has successfully tested the facility at government general hospitals in Ernakulam and Pathanamthitta. It has also partnered with General Hospital Alappuzha, the Institute for Communicative and Cognitive Neurosciences, Shoranur, and Sagara Cooperative Hospital, Punnapra, for providing this facility.
Introducing teleradiology at General Hospital Pathanamthitta, which is on the way to Sabarimala, made helped treat pilgrims encountering accidents and cardiac problems.
