In the First World, we can easily take things like access to education and healthcare for granted. While we can easily make an appointment at our physician’s office, in countries like India (especially in rural parts of the country) it can be much more difficult.
However, cloud computing is helping to make it easier.
At a San Diego healthcare summit, cardiologist Charit Bhograj highlighted the details of a course on treating chest pains in rural India. Previously, it was virtually impossible to treat advanced heart conditions in poorer villages. EKGs were too expensive to perform and rural physicians are often not in a position to read the EKG results.
But the rise of cloud computing is changing this.
Now, there are portable EKGs and specialized software, usable through cloud computing, that are making it possible to save more lives in even the most remote villages.
During the presentation, the audience was able to watch a physician in India take an EKG and transmit the results to Bhograj in San Diego. Bhograj read the EKG and relayed the results back to the Indian doctor using Tricog, a tool available for download through a smartphone app.
According to Bhograj, this cloud computing advancement “will change the odds of a heart attack taking your life from 80% to an 80% chance you will survive.”