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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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Telemedicine offers new era of health care services
Christian Weigand, a computer scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Erlangen, Germany has developed a portable laboratory to diagnose the condition as well as monitor during therapy.
Telemedicine helps to monitor critical patients
Physicians and doctors of Parkview Health hospitals are monitoring their critical patients though telemedicine technology.
TIMA launches TIMA mobile platform for telemedicine services
DP Solutions and Technology Integrations for Medical Applications, Inc. (TIMA) have joined together to launch the TIMA Mobile platform, which will allow doctors to provide telemedicine service to patients.
IGMH planning to provide telemedicine services in Maldives
Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH) and Apollo Hospitals of India have jointly come together to provide telemedicine services in Maldives.
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
Telemedicine potential being utilised by Russians
Telemedicine is increasingly becoming a vital part of accessing health-care for rural residents in Choteau and their counterparts in Russia.
Intel develops the first Digital Hospital with WiMAX technology in rural India.
Intel has developed the first Digital Hospital with WiMAX network to equip with 100 Mobile Computer Labs.
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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Space hospitals
Space Hospitals, a Chennai based company in India has got involved in an extention activity of providing medical care to rural areas. Accordingly it has linked 13 super speciality hospitals with 60 of its satellite medical centres, inter connecting, various parts of the country.
Federal grants to Avera Health for expanding telemedicine efforts
Sioux Falls-based Avera Health will get two hefty federal grants for expanding its efforts in telemedicine.
Federal grants to Avera Health for expanding telemedicine efforts
Sioux Falls-based Avera Health will get two hefty federal grants for expanding its efforts in telemedicine.
