India to have tele-medicine service with SAARC countries
Tele-medicine services will become operational between India, Bhutan and Sri Lanka by this year end, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said recently.
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Indian American medicos join hands with Apollo
Apollo Hospitals Group has agreed to provide ground support and other assistance to 17 dispensaries set up in India’s rural areas by the Association of American Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI).
New telemedicine service to help in the care of sick babies
Tiny Tom is the latest development of the tele-paediatric service, a major research project run by The University of Queensland’s Centre for Online Health (COH), a research centre based in the Royal Children’s Hospital in Brisbane.
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Bangkok Hospital Medical Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
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Bangkok Hospital Medical Centre (BMC) is one of the most technologically sophisticated hospitals in the world today.
Project Franchise Lab – Healthcare at the bottom of the pyramid : Shibaji Mandal,Director – Healthcare, Krishi Gram Vikas Kendra, Usha Martin
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The massive yet unexplored rural healthcare market is drawing the attention of many today.
HIMSS AsiaPac 08, 20 – 23 May 2008, Hong Kong
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The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), in conjunction with CHIK Services, organised AsiaPac08 at the Hong Kong
Med-e-Tel 2008
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The International Educational and Networking Forum for eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT
Telemedicine soon across Maharashtra
Project planned with ISRO should have started in June last year; now, initial phase will connect via satellite premier medical colleges and hospitals to patients at eight or nine district hospitals.
GMCH telemedicine project yet to benefit patients
More than 1,500 patients in the remote areas of the region have benefited from the PGI
Teleradiology plus electronic health record
Klinikum Chemnitz GmbH has become one of the first hospitals in Germany to link its teleradiology service with the electronic health record (EHR).
Jharkhand plans e-health network
Patients in remote villages of Jharkhand will soon have access to specialists without having to travel long distances for an examination.
Ericsson, Apollo Hospitals together bring healthcare to rural India
Ericsson and Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation (ATNF), a part of the Apollo Hospitals Group, have taken a major step towards helping bridge the digital divide in rural India by laying the foundation for the introduction of telemedicine delivered using HSPA technology, which will enable the provision of affordable and accessible healthcare to millions of people in remote areas.
