Telemedicine uses message and information technology to deliver health care when distance keeps the patients far from doctors. It plays a noteworthy title role to modernize the health care systems mainly in the developing countries. Telemedicine is popularly classified as tele-cardiology, tele-dermatology, tele-radiology, tele-ophthalmology, etc. based on the nature of medical services delivered in this manner. The Government of India has launched a number of projects to explore the feasibility of application of telemedicine to extend better health care services to the people in the rural and remote areas of the country. As a result, India is now leading the developing world in the installation and support of telemedicine services to remote regions through various types of telecom networks ranging from satellite to optical fiber to mobile.

The authors aim at to present:

(1) Highlights of the vast and varied experiences gathered by Webel in course of last four years of implementing and managing telemedicine services in the Government Health Service in various parts of Eastern India, and

(2) The novel experience with e-health in private health care service in a satellite town.