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[This article was published in the January 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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BP, Intel, Wal-Mart to launch electronic medical record system
Applied Materials Inc., British Petroleum America Inc., Intel Corp., Pitney Bowes Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., are funding a nonprofit institute to develop “Dossia”, a Web-based electronic health record system, which can be used for storing health information of 2.5 million employees and departments.
US HHS launches awareness website on HIV/AIDS
The U.S. Health and Human Services Department has launched the AIDS.gov Web site to spread the awareness about HIV/AIDS on World’s AIDS day.
Effective use of telemedicine mammography in North Dakota and South Dakota
Indian women living in North Dakota and South Dakota are getting their mammograms read in Ann Arbor, Mich., without ever leaving the reservation.
NASCIO releases State Health IT Initiatives
NASCIO announced about the release of the compendium, Profiles of Progress: State Health IT Initiatives.
CQU supports Chile for e-Health scheme
The South American nation of Chile will get an improved health system with the help from Central Queensland University’s (CQU) health informatics faculty.
Future of e-health in India is bright : Dr. Shashi Gogia, President, Indian Association for Medical Informatics, India
“The biggest advantage, which has been in favour of
e-Health in our country is that now, the Ministry of Health has started taking an active part. The Ministry of Health has taken the initiative of setting up a task force for telemedicine, which is an advisory body”, says Dr. Shashi Gogia, President, Indian Association for Medical Informatics, or IAMI, engaged in promoting application of informatics in the fields of healthcare, bioscience and medicine in India, in an interview with Sanjeev Shrivastav of eHealth
Online website
A new online website is launched on November 7, 2006 to provide online support for mental health problems to patients. The website www.mhchoice.org.uk is designed to support patients for their mental related health problems.
E-HEALTH AND THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM : Denise Silber
[This article was published in the November 2006 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
eHealth is a work in progress. Many countries have named a national coordinator or taskforce, or at a minimum assigned the subject to the tasks of the national health ministry. But no national system provides all of the e-Health services at the present time
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[This article was published in the November 2006 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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US keen on technology enabled processes for medical records
The Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), US recently worked out on the availability of health and information technology items and services for the purpose of improving electronic prescribing and electronic health records (EHR) capabilities.
Telemedicine link to two hospitals in North Hawaii
A $481,000 federal grant to Queen’s will help establish a network with a Big Island site, as a result of which physicians at the Queen’s Medical Center may soon be uating and suggesting treatment for trauma patients at the North Hawaii Community Hospital in Waimea.
Telemedicine link to two hospitals in North Hawaii
A $481,000 federal grant to Queen’s will help establish a network with a Big Island site, as a result of which physicians at the Queen’s Medical Center may soon be uating and suggesting treatment for trauma patients at the North Hawaii Community Hospital in Waimea.
