A mobile healthcare systems developer, Global Care Quest (GCQ),California, unveiled Integrated Clinical Information System (ICIS), a system that allows physicians to connect virtually to any hospital video conference or telemedicine system with little more than a laptop computer and high speed mobile Internet connection.
Bluethooth technology firms, such as Intel and Phillips, are planning to release health-related applications called blood pressure monitors.
The telemedicine suite at Bristol Children’s Hospital, Bristol, is using ISDN technology, which allows doctors to diagnose heart defects in unborn babies who are hundreds of miles far away.
Emergin in partnership with Ekahau, a provider of Wi-Fi based Real-Time Location System (RTLS) solutions, UK, allows medical staff to receive context-aware alerts via their mobile phone, VoIP phone, pager or PDA when they enter specific geographic areas.
LifeWatch, a specialist in cardiac arrhythmia telemonitoring, will be unveiling its suite of TeleCare, TeleMonitoring and Research solutions at the Heart Rhythm Society Annual Meeting held in Boston Massachusetts.
ISRO, India, signed Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with four specialty hospitals to further expand its telemedicine network.
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS trust in Truro has come out with an innovative system that allows staff to contact each other instantly anywhere in the hospital through a voice activated, wearable badge.
