There is a great synergy between tele medicine and business process outsourcing in healthcare in general and

medical tourism

in particular. For any healthcare process, there has to be a follow-up and it does not make much sense either to ask the patient to return or to forget about him once discharged. Therefore, follow-up advice and re-evaluation is imperative. Also, patient’s local care provider needs to be instructed regarding what all needs to be done further and what not. And, this is currently possible only through Tele medicine. With the help of Tele medicine, the patient would have a single medium through which a ‘virtual’ clinical encounter can take place where clinical data exchange—both textual and visual— can be done electronically on-demand at the speed of light. The entire medical record is available to all the stakeholders right from the beginning as the patient continues to receive the treatment irrespective of physical location. Once the patient is back to Ethiopia, he/she can continue to receive follow-ups remotely with the care providers who has provided the treatment and are consequently in the best position to monitor the progress. The primary care physician or any other care provider based locally would have physical access to the patient and can use the technology to hold consultations with the foreign care providers either as a conference in the presence of patient or by direct interaction. We schedule

post-treatment Tele medicine conferences

between the treating physician abroad, the patient and our

in-house doctors

with the goal of providing continued care to the patient, to monitor treatment outcomes and for early detection of complications post treatment, if any.