Italy to synchronise IT structure to cater health services
The Innovations Ministry of Italy has vowed to allocate 15m euro in government fund to adopt online health service booking operations.
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BT Managed Vocera Solution in UK
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.
IT for health care
Health IT can drastically improve health-care access and the quality of that care, and can dramatically lower the costs.
RFID ensures safety in Thailand hospitals
Bangkok Hospital, one of the biggest hospitals in Thailand providing tertiary healthcare, has been studying a plan to implement RFID (radio frequency identification) technology to enhance the level of safety for its patients.
Mastering ICT with disabilities
IICP has taken to Information Communication Technology (ICT), especially assistive technology hardware and software, to empower children with cerebral palsy and neuro-muscular impairments under its fold and to facilitate their integration with mainstream society.
Online birth certificates through hospitals in India
With the online registration and issuance of birth certificates becoming the in thing in the Indian state Kerala, long wait for birth certificates at corporation and municipal offices is turning a thing of the past.
First hospital ICT contract for Kompakar in China
Kompakar Inc Bhd, an integrated information and communications technology (ICT) provider, has won a RM1.15mil deal with Beijing Plastic Surgery Hospital, marking the group’s first total hospital information systems (eTHIS) reference site in China.
IT majors throng in Indian cities for health
Hospitals in the Indian city Chennai are now attracting a different class of clients as IT and BPO companies focus more on the healthcare segment.
Computers and mobile phones are playing an increasingly valuable role in helping doctors
Government ministers of United Kingdom believe that new technology can also be harnessed to help elderly people live independently for longer.
GE Healthcare to provide wireless system to hospitals
GE Healthcare has announced a worldwide agreement with MobileAccess Networks to jointly offer a wireless communication service for hospitals.
Technology improving life for seniors
New technologies for seniors, supplementing conveniences like The Clapper and emergency warnings like Life Alert, are on display this week at the White House Conference on Aging.
A call centre now for blinds in India
The non-governmental organisation, Late Vasantrao Sule Medical and Charitable Trust, is launching a call centre in India that will employ only unemployed visually impaired youths.
Wireless spending to reach $7 billion
A recent study by The Focal Point Group LLC predicts that spending for wireless health care applications will reach $7 billion by 2010.
