One of the most promising ICT development projects in RDB/IT division is the e-health project, which involves 3 main projects: the store and forward system, the tele-medicine video conferencing and the real time tele-medicine system.
Stephen Conroy, Federal Communications Minister, offered an amount of $60 million in funding for new remote and rural health, emergency response and education projects.
A consultation was launched by the European Commission to help prepare a new EU Information Society strategy, to follow on from the current strategy.
There are several IT experts and medical practitioners who will share their experiences relating to e-health care during the summer school to be organised by Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad.
Katy Gallagher, ACT health minister has decided to travel to Denmark and Norway in August, to learn about e-health systems in the country.
Soon to go high-tech in treating patients, a Health Ministry source explained for Sri Lanka, with a novel patient centric
Medicare number and card will soon link the patients’ medical records across health providers, under the US$98 million Unique Healthcare Identifier (UHI) program.
The African Ministers of Health were asked by the Vice President John Dramani Mahama to define an e-health framework for purpose of reviewing policies and strategies for the achieving major health goals.
Microsoft’s Amalga software at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California, acts as a software support to check and track cases of Swine Flu.
[This article was published in the June 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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HID Global, a leading access and ID management solution provider, is introducing the OMNIKEY 8751 e-Health LAN card reader terminal on the market. The device has already been in use in German clinics, pharmacies and medical practices since 2007 in the scope of the test regions for the new health card. The network-compatible card reader terminal has Gematik
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has allocated $90 million it described as an “unprecedented level of investment” to electronic health initiatives in its annual budget, including an e-health record for all residents of the territory.
Singapore General Hospital (SGH) will introduce an e-health record and management system by the end of 2009. The Community Care Management Solution (CCMS) will be accessible to all wards and polyclinics.
