EU launches emergency call system
The European Commission has proposed a system, which provides cars in Europe with a direct contact to the emergency services.
First ‘pharmacovigilance’ center launched in India
Accenture and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company have together launched the pharmaceutical industry’s first ‘pharmacovigilance’ center, in Chennai, India, to monitor safety of data collected on medicines.
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.
One lakh mobiles for health workers, volunteers
This initiative will improve the health service delivery system in the rural areas. All the 55,400 women health volunteers in the State will receive mobile phones.
Nurses go wireless in Essen
Soon the nursing service at Essen University Hospital will become wireless as part of its ambitious wireless health IT project.
Talbotton, Georgia receives telemedicine project
Soon the small town of Talbotton, Georgia will have a Telemedicine project to benefit residents of the town.
An e-Healthy State of Being
[This article was published in the March 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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UNICEF opens first 227 mother-and-child health centres in Tsunami-hit Indonesia
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has completed construction of the first of the 227 mother-and-child health centres it is building in Indonesia’s tsunami-devastated Aceh province and earthquake-hit Nias Island.
Sindh Govt plans to set 23 telemedicine centres
Sindh Government is setting basic centres of telemedicine services in all districts of the province. Telemedicine will play a major role in providing modern facilities to the people of remote rural areas of Sindh, Pakistan.
Space Hospitals plans to set up more 126 new telemedicine centers in India
Chennai (India) based telemedicine services provider Space Hospitals is planning to set up 126 new telemedicine centers across Tamil Nadu, India by the end of this year 2007.
Tetra radios, upgrades emergency health services in UK
The Department of Health (DoH) is planning to install over 1800 Tetra radio terminals in all The NHS Ambulance Trusts in England.
Space hospitals
Space Hospitals, a Chennai based company in India has got involved in an extention activity of providing medical care to rural areas. Accordingly it has linked 13 super speciality hospitals with 60 of its satellite medical centres, inter connecting, various parts of the country.
Satellite medical centre launched in Chennai
A satellite medical centre was launched by Sankari Hospital, Vellore, in association with Space Hospitals, Chennai, on its premises.
