Telemedicine is a term used to represent different technologies to deliver medical services including remote patient monitoring, e-consults, and 2-way interactive videos.

Telemedicine has found many takers in the Radiology, Psychiatry, and Cardiology departments whereas Gastroenterology Ob-gynecology, and Immunology have not found much use for it. Emergency medicine, Pathology, and Radiology find telemedicine useful for consulting with other physicians too.

The foremost advantage of telemedicine is that physicians, more importantly specialists, have become more approachable to people since they readily consider it due to less cost and time consumption.

Telemedicine has seen a major application in

• Cardiology
• Dermatology
• Dentistry
• Family Medicine
• Pediatrics
• Psychiatry
• Pathology
• Urology
• Radiology
• Ophthalmology

These specialties have found a use for telemedicine with varying extent of application.

Though the implementation cost is a deterrent, many healthcare practitioners are ready to try telemedicine due to the advantages it holds especially Post-Pandemic.