India, May 17 -- In our pursuit to recognize the contribution of telecommunications to healthcare delivery, on World Telecommunication and Information Society Day 2020, Voice&Data brings a special feature on India's self-reliance in telemedicine and its effective deployment in the fight against Coronavirus across the country.

A team of six students of Manipal Institute of Technology recently bagged the second prize claiming a price money of $5,000 at the CODE 19 Online Hackathon. The students were awarded for creating a solution that enables remote diagnosis of COVID-19 patients to reduce the risk of infection for healthcare workers. Their solution, TeleVital, captures a patient's vital statistics remotely through a webcam and browser. In...