Phone to solve Uganda’s Health problems
Many African countries are now looking upto the field of Telemedicine and experts in the same area, that would help overcome problems of limited health care skills and growing disease burden.
Many African countries are now looking upto the field of Telemedicine and experts in the same area, that would help overcome problems of limited health care skills and growing disease burden.
[This article was published in the January 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
An integrated approach to IT and communication systems for better patient care and higher operational efficiencies is very much the need of the hour. This article looks at the importance of effective communication channels that can help in providing better health care facilities.
[This article was published in the December 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Designing better health care is also about better ambiance and design. This issue focuses on how better designed hospitals and health care centers can nurse people better.
Ericsson is joining forces with the United Nations Office for partnerships to use telecommunications to bring mobile-health applications and services (m-health) and telemedicine to rural Africa.
Ericson has partnered with the United Nations Office to use telecommunications to bring mobile-health applications and services (m-health) and telemedicine to rural Africa. As a founding member of the UN’s Digital Health Initiative, Ericsson is taking another step in its ongoing commitment to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which aim to reduce global extreme poverty.
[This article was published in the September 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The European Commission has recently published a new draft of interoperability guidelines setting out a roadmap to achieve interoperable electronic health records (EHR) across the continent by the middle of the next decade.
A new EU-funded information and communication technology (ICT) project is tackling issues of safety in newly developed drugs. Over the next three and a half years, the ALERT (‘Early detection of adverse drug events by integrative mining of clinical records and biomedical knowledge’) project partners will work on an innovative computer system for a better and faster detection of adverse drug reactions (ADRs).
A number of countries are signing on to a plan for India to invest USD 1 billion in the Pan-African e-Network satellite project, a joint initiative with the Africa Union aimed at developing the region’s information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure.
[This article was published in the August 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Learning, be it e-Learning or otherwise, is a cyclical process of reflective observation based on day to day concrete experiences, followed by abstract conceptualization and active experimentation at either individual or group levels.
A contest for information and communication technology (ICT) products for disabled people, entitled “ICT – Light the Hope,” was launched in Ha Noi on 1 december.