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.
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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.
Life-saving technology gets an upgrade in Northern Canada
Life saving diagnosis of a patient who survived stroke in North Bay, Canada with remote assistance from a neurologist 300 Km away in Toronto via telecommunications technology and digital brain images captured and transmitted by using computers, cameras and software
Life-saving technology gets an upgrade in Northern Canada
The Canadian Northland Transportation Commission. commission’s telecommunications branch will invest about $4 million to improve and expand bandwidth and security for healthcare services. The work will allow all 117 hospitals in North Canada to link up to a high capacity healthcare network.
Healthcare on-the-fly
MedLink will provide flight attendants and pilots with a one-call solution for in-flight medical situations, through board-certified physicians working at a level-one trauma center in Phoenix, Arizona.
CWS – BITS Pilani using Telecom Technology to Provide Healthcare Services
UGC Centre for Women Studies (CWS) at BITS, Pilani has joined hands with Sewa Bharti, Pilani to open new vistas for the people by inaugurating a Telemedicine Centre, first of its kind in Shekhawati Region of Rajasthan.
Australian Federal Govt unveils e-Health Plan
The Federal Government of Australia has unveiled a new Internet based health system for remote areas. The new health system will ensure health issues identified in Aboriginal children.
Telemedicine link with US varsity
The former President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam has inaugurated the web-based telemedicine link at the IIT campus of Hyderabad with the cooperation of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, US.
IBM launches health archive solution
IBM has launched its latest Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS) at the Telemedicine Association show in the US.
Telemedicine course for doctors
MGR Medical University of Tamil Nadu, India is planning to provide a one-month telemedicine certificate course for doctors.
Talbotton, Georgia receives telemedicine project
Soon the small town of Talbotton, Georgia will have a Telemedicine project to benefit residents of the town.
