Space Telemedicine, in what is claimed to be the largest telemedicine initiative in Asia, will soon launch 600 mobile V-Sat units, to connect the smallest towns with major super speciality hospitals across India.
As part of a UN programme for tackling poverty in rural Africa, 79 villages across 10 African countries will be hooked up to cellular networks. Around half a million people, described by the UN as “the poorest of the poor”, are expected to make mobile calls soon.
Ericsson has partnered with the Earth Institute at Columbia University to provide connectivity to the Millennium Villages project.
[This article was published in the September 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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UGC Centre for Women Studies (CWS) at BITS, Pilani has joined hands with Sewa Bharti, Pilani to open new vistas for the people by inaugurating a Telemedicine Centre, first of its kind in Shekhawati Region of Rajasthan.
[This article was published in the August 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
As there is generally no medical specialist in remote areas, there is a great need to provide specialized support for the betterment of health in these areas.
In an exhaustive interview with Gabe Rijpma, Director, Health and Human Services Industry, Microsoft Asia Pacific, eHealth has attempted to probe the Microsoft�s vision for fostering e-Health in the Asia Pacific region and also its pragmatic corporate initiatives towards fruition of that vision.
[This article was published in the June 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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IBM has launched its latest Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS) at the Telemedicine Association show in the US.
Soon mobile phone will guide blind people in finding their way. Sweden based company, Mobile Sorcery AB is developing the software, which will guide sight impaired and blind people with voice advisories from their mobile phones.
UK based Leeds University has developed a mobile phone, which will measure a patient’s vital signs and also deliver the results straight to the GPs.
[This article was published in the May 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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Mobile phones have become more useful for citizens of Africa. Now the continent is using mobile phones to fight with the HIV/AIDS. US Government and 5 member groups from the mobile phone industry have taken this initiative step, named ‘Phone for Health’ to combat with HIV/AIDs.
