Program brings medical services to children
The Danville Pittsylvania Community Services Board (DPCSB) is using videoconferencing technology to provide services to children, and adolescents in need of psychiatric help.
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BSNL to provide telemedicine service among hospitals
The Bhartiya Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), India to provide telemedicine services through its network between the Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) hospital and other hospitals.
Flying Doctors of Austrailia to access medical records
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) will have ready access to the medical records of more than 750,000 residents in remote Australia under a new project backed by the federal government.
The University of California, Merced eyes telemedicine
The University of California at Merced, is planning to set up a telemedicine centre in the Northern San Joaquin Valley, where many disadvantaged patients lack access to medical specialists.
Canadian Network of Clinicians to Share e-health Experiences with Peers
Clinician eHealth Support Network, a peer-to-peer initiative launched recently allows Physicians, nurses and pharmacists from across Canada to benefit from the expertise of a network of colleagues, experienced in e-health.
AIIMS starts telemedicine-based cancer consultation
A telemidicine link now connects AIIMS with Sher-E-Kashmir Institute, Cuttack Cancer Hospital as part of a larger plan to connect around 100 networked hospitals and medical institutions all over the country.
AIIMS establishes telemedicine link at cancer hospital
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) of India has expanded its telemedicine connectivity at its cancer treatment facility.The facility will also provide consultations to the SAARC and pan-African countries
Online help for Mumbai’s (India) heart patients
The Asian Heart Institute (AHI) of Mumbai has launched its telemedicine facility for heart patients of the city.
Three additional Arizona hospitals get telemedicine for Teletrauma program
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona (BCBSAZ) and University Medical Center (UMC) in Tucson have announced that three additional rural Arizona hospitals will now have real-time access to UMC teletrauma specialists through the Telemedicine for Teletrauma program.
UMC adds 3 hospitals to provide telemedicine services
University Medical Center has added three more hospitals to its telemedicine/teletrauma program. Now a total of five rural hospitals are getting high-tech assistance in their emergency rooms.
Telemedicine: boon for rural India
The telemedicine network becomes essential as in most cases reading the scans can be confusing. Telemedicine also helps make up for the poor health infrastructure in this large disparately growing country.
Telemedicine set to SMS blood pressure report to doctor
Soon, blood pressure patients in Chandigarh (India) would be able to send their blood pressure reports to doctors’ cell phone via SMS with the help of mobile handset.
IBM/Mainsoft Portal Solution to Serve Medical Community
IBM and Mainsoft Corporation, recently announced that the Belgian University Hospital Ghent (UZ Gent) has chosen IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 to develop a self-service virtual information center for its 5,000 staff members, students, healthcare professionals, plus more than 380,000 patients and their families that visit the hospital each year.
