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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications Volume 2010, Article ID 536237, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2010/536237 Research Article Arogyasree: An Enhanced Grid-Based Approach to Mobile Telemedicine Sriram Kailasam, Santosh Kumar, and Janakiram Dharanipragada Department of Computer Science Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India Correspondence should be addressed to Sriram Kailasam, ksriram@cse.iitm.ac.in Received 5 October 2009; Accepted 18 February 2010 Academic Editor: Sajid Hussain Copyright © 2010 Sriram Kailasam et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A typical telemedicine system involves a small set of hospitals providing remote healthcare services to a small section of the society using dedicated nodal centers. However, in developing nations like India where majority live in rural areas that lack specialist care, we envision the need for much larger Internet-based telemedicine systems that would enable a large pool of doctors and hospitals to collectively provide healthcare services to entire populations. We propose a scalable, Internet-based P2P architecture for telemedicine integrating multiple hospitals, mobile medical specialists, and rural mobile units. This system, based on the store and forward model, features a distributed context-aware scheduler for providing timely and location-aware telemedicine services. Other features like zone-based overlay structure and persistent object space abstraction make the system efficient and easy to use. Lastly, the system uses the existing internet infrastructur