What makes telemedicine the next big mover in the Indian healthcare space

Apart from lab services, diagnosis and second opinions from super specialists, telemedicine even offers long-distance ICU services to the remotest corners of the country today

A 22-year-old from Bhatinda suffering from epileptic fits for 10 years tried various therapies in his hometown to get rid of his ailment. Nothing worked. Desperate, the boy's parents thought of consulting a specialist in Delhi. Thankfully, they didn't have to travel all the way to the Capital. Instead, they were connected online from the local clinic in Bhatinda to a neurologist in Delhi, through the MedECUBE network. MedECUBE is a healthcare service provider with several telemedicine clinics in India and 12 abroad. This company, in turn, referred the case to a specialist at Stanford, who is on the firm's panel