The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu discusses eHealth as “the great equalizer” and its ability to improve the human condition at the Global Ministerial Forum for Research on Health in Bamako, Mali. This is in continuation to the Rockefeller Foundation sponsored conference series at its Bellagio Center from
July 12-August 8, 2008, titled
The European Commission telemedicine communication aims to increase and broaden telemedicine services, including diagnosis, treatment and monitoring at a distance across Europe.
McKesson UK has launched Horizon OneStaff, a rostering, open shift management and time-and-attendance system specifically designed for the NHS.
Patients living in remote areas or suffering from chronic diseases that need continuous monitoring should have better access to medical treatment delivered, for example, over the internet, the European Commission said.
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The European Commission has adopted Communication to support and improve access to telemedicine for EU citizens and healthcare professionals across Europe. In response to a call for action from Member States, this initiative aims to increase and broaden telemedicine services, including diagnosis, treatment and monitoring at a distance across Europe.
A project involving 12 European countries and supported by the European Commission is taking the lead in ensuring healthcare interoperability in Europe.
Carestream Health is acting as a major technical infrastructure provider to the EU-funded R-Bay validation project, which aims to address the uneven spread of radiologists across member states.
[This article was published in the October 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Medical data breach insurance, euHeart Project, bird flu detection machine, Version 3 of HL 7 are some of the stories reported in the World News section of eHealth.
[This article was published in the September 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The European Commission has recently published a new draft of interoperability guidelines setting out a roadmap to achieve interoperable electronic health records (EHR) across the continent by the middle of the next decade.
A new communications system between a moving ambulance and its hospital base allows the simultaneous transmission of bandwidth-hungry video and ultra-sonic images, telephone communications and patient data, all at the same time.
Public bodies in the UK, including health authorities, could be given the power to access details of everyone’s personal text messages, emails and internet use if new Home Office proposals are passed.
[This article was published in the August 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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