Linked by a high-speed Internet connection, the doctors in Care Hospital in Hyderabad, India, study X-rays and laboratory results being transmitted by doctors from Black Lion Hospital in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Flipping between charts, they use light pens to point out important features. They can see each other in windows on their screens, while medical charts fill the rest of the display.
The US-medical device manufacturer Medtronic is planning to extend its presence as a telemedicine provider in Europe the company announced in Switzerland recently.
Doctors and nursing staff from several municipalities in Greece – plus four specialists from the Athens Medical Centre – have been trained in the use of telemetric systems as part of an extension of the country’s telemedicine programme.
A telemedicine initiative first piloted in the NHS Grampian area is now to be trialled in Perthshire by NHS Tayside, it was revealed recently.
NEST- “Network for Integrated Systems in Telemedicine” exhibited its products and developments for the first time in Mumbai at HOSPIMedica from March 14th to 16th 2008. NEST presented its telemedical solutions for a better emergency care, be it on board of an airplane or within inaccessible areas, with less medical care centres.
For the first time in India, Mantri Developers Pvt. Ltd. has tied up with Apollo Hospitals Ltd. to provide quality health care services 24 x 7 through Telemedicine to residents of select Mantri homes, using contemporary state of the art technology.
The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center’s Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine Research has been awarded US$ 15.5 million from the Federal Communications Commission for the design, construction, operation and uation of a Southwest Telehealth Access Grid.
[This article was published in the March 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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[This article was published in the March 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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[This article was published in the March 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
9 million jobs are expected to be created in the health care industry by 2012. Find out where, why and who stand to gain the most.
Nortel and Polycom jointly demonstrated their end-to-end solutions for healthcare needs as well as telemedicine recently.
In order to provide more quality health care to its people, the Chandigarh Administration has decided to connect various important Community Health Centre, Manimajra and Community Health Centre, Sector-22 with Government Multi Specialty Hospital (GMSH), Sector-16, Chandigarh through telemedicine project.
Telemedicine specialist t+ Medical has partnered with LifeScan to take data from blood glucose meters and wirelessly transmit the information to a central database.
