French-based Alcatel-Lucent and SaskTel have launched LifeStat Remote Monitoring and Health Management, a service that records and transmits daily blood glucose and blood pressure readings, automatically creating confidential, easy-to-use reports that can be viewed online by the client, their caregivers and the client
Patients wary of medical negligence and unnecessary tests by doctors need not be nervous at the time of hospitalisation anymore. The government is in the process of framing clinical guidelines for the treatment of widely-prent diseases. Doctors would have to follow these guidelines.
Patients wary of medical negligence and unnecessary tests by doctors need not be nervous at the time of hospitalisation anymore. The government is in the process of framing clinical guidelines for the treatment of widely-prent diseases. Doctors would have to follow these guidelines.
With a view to promote research and development in the pharmaceutical sector, the government plans to provide soft loans of INR 100 crore to the industry in the current fiscal.
New guidelines, issued by the Department of Health, call for more partnerships between the NHS and drug companies, stressing they should be “of mutual benefit with the principal beneficiary being the patient”.
With Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledging to offer telehealth services to 100,000 patients, the new HealthHUB is another step by Docobo to bring the benefits of telehealth to people with long term conditions and their carers.
US-based $23-billion diversified technology firm 3M is in talks with top domestic pharma companies to licence drug delivery technologies.
US-based $23-billion diversified technology firm 3M is in talks with top domestic pharma companies to licence drug delivery technologies.
[This article was published in the October 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The vision of the empowered patient is still lagging behind reality, but now e-health offers the opportunity for patient empowerment.
The New York State Health Department has launched its Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) website, which provides links to existing environmental and human health related data.
[This article was published in the June 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
A new introduction at Med-e-Tel was Estele, a robotics system for tele-echography, introduced by the French company named Robosoft.
[This article was published in the February 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Being pregnant can be very challenging for mothers especially if they are expecting for the first time.
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.
