Bridging a Medical and Technological Gap

INDIA: The ReMeDi kit uses the Web to connect India's rural poor with urban physicians

Friday, Dec. 07, 2007
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Namas Bhojani for TIME

Sameer S. Sawarkar, CEO of Neurosynaptic Communications.

While urban India boasts world-class hospitals, a majority of the 741 million Indians living in villages do not have access to even basic medical facilities. This paradox gave birth to Sameer Sawarkar's Neurosynaptic, which seeks to bridge the gap through telemedicine.

Hailing from a family of rural-reform activists, Sawarkar studied engineering at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and worked in the Indian high-tech mecca for seven years. He used that training to develop a low-cost telemedicine kit that connects rural patients with urban doctors via the Web. ReMeDi measures four vital signs: temperature, blood pressure, heartbeat and blood oxygenation....

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