Tele-medicare service launched for country's diabetic patients
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
FE Report
The Telemedicine Reference Centre Ltd (TRCL) launched Tuesday a tele-medicare service for diabetic patients in the country, the first of its kind in Bangladesh as well as in Asia.
Any mobile phone user of the country would get access to the mobile health (mHealth) service by becoming a member of the AMCARE-iDM.
A diabetic patient can be a member by paying Tk 1,000 and then get a user name and a password for accessing the service by a Bluetooth Glucometre (MGH-BT), which may cost Tk. 4,500. Members will get SMS alert as well as service from the Telemedicine Call Centre (TCC), officials said.
The Bluetooth device has two years of warrantee, and after the two years the AMCARE will replace a Bluetooth Glucometre at half the cost.
The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) will be monitored at a portal of the Entra Health Systems (EHS) of San Diego in the USA, a partner of the project.
Any patient can view the EMR by logging on to www.amcaremobile.com, and also can have a printed version of the record.
The Telemedicine Reference Centre Ltd (TRCL) launched Tuesday a tele-medicare service for diabetic patients in the country, the first of its kind in Bangladesh as well as in Asia.
Any mobile phone user of the country would get access to the mobile health (mHealth) service by becoming a member of the AMCARE-iDM.
A diabetic patient can be a member by paying Tk 1,000 and then get a user name and a password for accessing the service by a Bluetooth Glucometre (MGH-BT), which may cost Tk. 4,500. Members will get SMS alert as well as service from the Telemedicine Call Centre (TCC), officials said.
The Bluetooth device has two years of warrantee, and after the two years the AMCARE will replace a Bluetooth Glucometre at half the cost.
The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) will be monitored at a portal of the Entra Health Systems (EHS) of San Diego in the USA, a partner of the project.
Any patient can view the EMR by logging on to www.amcaremobile.com, and also can have a printed version of the record.