The Technological Growth in eHealth Services

Table 1

Role of satellite.

S. number	Areas	Satellite communication in eHealth
		2004–2008	2009–2014
		Ref. number	Ref. number
1	Disaster management	[2–11]	[12–14]
2	Diagnosis of disease particularly in rural	[15–20]	[21–24]
3	Medical education and training of health professionals	[25, 26]	[27]
4	Treatment of chronic diseases like cancer, HIV/AIDS, and so forth	[28–30]
5	Ultrasound	[31, 32]	[33]
6	High speed video-audio conferencing	[34–36]	[37–39]
7	Services for elderly people	[40, 41]
8	Improvements proposed over the existing satellite based system		[42–51]