Better-quality health care with IT in Arizona
The University of Arizona’s College of Medicine campus in Phoenix will train a new breed of Arizona doctors.
The University of Arizona’s College of Medicine campus in Phoenix will train a new breed of Arizona doctors.
To support telemedicine applications in Kazakhstan as part of a telemedicine pilot project, ND SatCom delivered 16 SkyWAN terminals.
Efforts are being made to link all 4,000 government clinics and 120 public hospitals in Malaysia via ICT network.
In ten villages of Maharashtra state in India, the villagers are now directly connected with the technically advanced district medical centre at Wardha, two hours away from the village.
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.
The Italian-based Health R&S and e-Heart donated an advanced Italian telemedicine technology to the Tibetan Delek Hospital, Dharamshala.
Telemedicine is still in primary stage in Germany. Electronic monitoring of people’s pulse, blood sugar, blood pressure and weight could soon make life easier for many sick people and may even save lives.
Rural community in Georgia does not have to think about the remoteness for health problems.
Giving the paramount importance to the safety and welfare of travelers, Virgin Atlantic Aircrafts will introduce the telemedicine device Tempus, which is designed for use by non-medical experts during the medical emergency in the aircrafts.
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.
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.
Technology has the potential of enhancing both quality and cost efficiency not only in the larger centers but also in rural clinics and hospitals as well.