History
In last 11 years, TRCL achieved many milestones, which are summarized below:
• 1999 – 17th October: got registration to commercialize telemedicine technology applications in Bangladesh.
• 2000 – 20th January: launched first low-cost telemedicine system for Bangladesh.
• 2001 – 25th September: started first international medical services using telemedicine technology with University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Health System (UNMC/NHS), Omaha, NE, USA and Apollo Hospitals Group, Chennai, India.
• 2001 – 25th September: organized and sponsored first seminar on telemedicine in Bangladesh jointly with the Ministry of Health, Government of Bangladesh.
• 2002 – 30th September: lead the team of Government and Private Health Industry of Bangladesh on telemedicine filed study in USA under invitation of Governor of Nebraska, USA.
• 2002 – 2nd October: TRCL Founder Dr. Zakir was awarded by UNMC/NHS for his outstanding contribution to the International partnership programs.
• 2004 – 22nd January: organized and sponsored the 1st International Conference on eGovernment, eHealthcare and eLearning jointly with the Prime Minister’s Bureau for Support to ICT Task Force of the Government of Bangladesh.
• 2005 – 5th June: TRCL demonstrated successful medical call center system using mobile phone infrastructure and text messaging systems.
• 2006 – 5th January: signed the strategic partnership agreement with Grameen Phone Ltd. for Medical Call Center project.
• 2007 – 12th February: HealthLine – the first medical call center manned by licensed physician jointly with Grameen Phone Ltd. was awarded with GSMA Global Mobile Award 2007 in Best Use of Mobiles for Social and Economic Development category.
• 2009 – 26th June: ICDDR, Bangladesh (www.icddrb.org) and Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (on behalf of Future Health Systems) and TRCL have signed an agreement to initiate IRHIS (Integrated Rural Health Information System) project.
• 2009 – 17th October: TRCL has celebrated successful completion of 1st decade in Telemedicine, eHealth and mHealth businesses.
• 2009 – 3rd November: TRCL launched chronic disease management system under “AMCARE” brand in Bangladesh. In first phase, TRCL started Diabetes Patient Management System (DPMS).
• 2010 – 26th April: signed an exclusive collaboration agreement with Diabetic Association of Bangladesh to extended diabetes care nationwide to bring 100% diabetic patients under treatment and monitoring using TRCL patient management platform and medical call center system.
• 2010 – 14th July: TRCL and Diabetic Association of Bangladesh jointly under a grant from World Diabetic Foundation formally launched Accredited Physician Scheme (APS) to train, equip and deploy 500 rural certified physicians to practice as rural diabetic care centers to cover all sub-districts of Bangladesh.
• 2010 – 4th December (coming): TRCL is launching cardiac patient home monitoring program using patient’s personal ECG devices integrated with their mobile phones from medical call center manned by 24/7 cardiologists.
• 2010 – 27th December (coming): TRCL is launching pilot scheme in collaboration with ICDDR,B and JHSPH funded by DFID (UK) to include village (traditional) doctors under medical call center system of TRCL.