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eSanjeevaniIndia's national telemedicine service connecting patients and rural clinics to doctors and specialists.UNAL / HUN Digital telemedicine network (Centro de Telemedicina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia)Telemedicine program of the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, created in 2002 to bring specialized health services to remote regions (Amazonas, Vichada, Guaviare, Caquetá, Arauca, Putumayo, among others). It has served more than 30 health institutions and today operates through the Hospital Universitario Nacional (HUN Digital: teleconsultation, tele-expertise, TeleUCI Solidaria) and the program 'Conectando la salud a la región', which under Agreement 2129 of 2025 with MinSalud, UdeA and UniCartagena installs teleconsultation centers in remote municipalities such as Puerto Leguízamo (Putumayo), avoiding river journeys of 6-8 hours.World Health Partners Sky (social franchising + telemedicine, Bihar)World Health Partners' Sky program in Bihar (launched in November 2010 in 13 districts, ~43.4M population; funding of more than USD 23 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other donors). It created a network of health franchises (SkyCare/SkyHealth, up to ~10,663 health entrepreneurs) recruiting rural informal providers and connecting them via telemedicine with urban doctors, targeting childhood diarrhea and pneumonia. The independent evaluation (Duke/Stanford, with standardized patients) found null impact: Sky providers saw a minimal fraction of the target cases and did not improve knowledge or quality of treatment. The program won the Skoll Award 2013 before any evidence of results existed; the Sky program ended around June 2018.