01931nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100002000041245012900061260003900190300002500229520152900254773003801783220719b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMalik, Khusboo   aThe comparative analysis of legal framework for privacy protection vis-a-vis telemedicine in U.S.A, U.K, Malaysia and India   aKashmir Journal of Legal Studies    a9(1), 2022: p.91-112  aWe are living in an era of technology where everything which we can think of may be realized in a wink of eye. Despite technological advancement the most of the parts of the world are still lagging behind in providing standard health care mechanism to their citizens. Apart from the challenges of terrorism and poverty, to provide quality health care to all is the greatest challenges before the human race in the 21st century. Lack of professionalism, education and poverty is making the situation more and more uncontrollable. When we look at the scenario in Indian perspective we can find that most of the qualified medical consultants choose to work in urban areas and reluctant to move in rural areas. India which is considered to be a nation of villages (six lakh villages) having almost two- third of its population only have one-fourth of the qualified medical consultants. According to PwC(PricewaterhouseCoopers) report availability of hospitals in vicinity is not a common phenomenon in India and every rural patient has to cover a long distance to reach a quality hospital. Furthermore, number of trained physicians is a matter of concern as not even one consultant is available over 1000 people. This urban rural gap can be filed by providing healthcare services through telemedicine. This paper is an attempt to discuss telemedicine, Right to Privacy in India, need of Privacy Protection in India and comparative study with other countries like U.S.A, U.K and Malaysia to practice Telemedicine. – Reproduced   aKashmir Journal of Legal Studies