We are delighted to announce that in the late spring, YIGH received a $200,000 gift from Arjun Kalyanpur, YSM ’99, and Sunita Maheshwari, YSM ’99, to support the YIGH Sustainable Health Initiative (SHI). The gift will establish the Kalyanpur-Maheshwari Endowment for Global Health Innovation, which will provide impact grants to Yale students and trainees as they develop […]
Teleradiology enables better physician collaboration, communication and consultation – in turn leading to better patient care. Appropriate medical treatment cannot be provided without accurate diagnosis, and teleradiology allows for an accurate diagnosis to be delivered to each and every citizen without them having to travel hundreds of miles in its quest
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Teleradiology– is best defined as the process by which images are transferred to distant locations for the purpose of interpretation and diagnosis. It enables transfer of images such as CT, MRI, X-rays etc from locations with radiologist scarcity to other locations where radiologists are available for real time interpretation. This also allows the scans to
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We are facing a real shortage of radiologists in India and hence, there lies the necessity to spread the utilization of teleradiology across the country to allow for early diagnosis, especially in the emergency setting. Outsourced teleradiology is a growing trend, but there needs to be a constant focus on quality and technological innovation. The recent exciting advancements
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The standard of radiology in India has significantly improved since the time when I was a medical student. Primarily the access to high end imaging technology has seen rapid development in the past two decades. While in the past, imaging in India was focused on conventional radiology and ultrasound, today it has evolved into sophisticated and
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We recently celebrated our 17th anniversary at TRS. When asked to say a few words I reflected over the things that had remained constant since the beginning and what had changed. In terms of the aspects of our organizational culture that I feel are a constant and have remained so since the beginning of TRS, these
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I recently attended an interesting lecture hosted by the New India Foundation on the subject of How to Fix Primary Education in India, by an eminent speaker from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Prof Esther Duflo, in which she elegantly described, using randomized controlled trial data generated by her organization’s field research, what is erring
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An awful lot is being said today about radiologist burnout. Hardly a week passes by without a dire article on the subject on the front page of a radiology journal. Surveys indicate that the majority of radiologists are burned out, and some of these even delve into associated pathologies such as substance abuse to indicate
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There is a great story in the Indian mythological tour de force the Mahabharata about Arjuna and Duryodhana, representing the forces of good and evil respectively, coming to visit their mentor Lord Krishna to seek his support for their respective armies during battle. When they arrive he is asleep on his bed. Duryodhana who arrives
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A trip of mine to Paris three years ago was bizarrely disrupted by the river Seine flooding its banks. This week once again the Seine is threatening to flood and the mayor of Paris is quoted as saying that this is “clearly a question of the town adapting to climate change” Along with other recent
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