[This article was published in the January 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The aim of this first of its kind event was to exchange information and views on how eInfrastructures are currently deployed in both Europe and India, with the objective of analysing how their increasing role is viewed in a business, educational, socio-political and scientific context.
[This article was published in the January 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the USA has initiated its efforts to revolutionize prosthetic devices for amputee soldiers.
[This article was published in the January 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
‘And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.’ -Lord Tennyson (from ULYSSES)
[This article was published in the January 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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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.
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.
Indian women living in North Dakota and South Dakota are getting their mammograms read in Ann Arbor, Mich., without ever leaving the reservation.
NASCIO announced about the release of the compendium, Profiles of Progress: State Health IT Initiatives.
The South American nation of Chile will get an improved health system with the help from Central Queensland University’s (CQU) health informatics faculty.
“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
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.
[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
[This article was published in the November 2006 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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