[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Telemedicine is defined as the use of electronic Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to provide and support health care when distance separates the participants.
Siemens Healthcare has announced its first molecular imaging biomarker production facility in Chennai, India. The new facility will enable the healthcare providers in and around Chennai to access the positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) technology to diagnose patients with life-threatening diseases, such as cancer and cardiac and neurological ailments.
[This article was published in the February 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Health IT tends to be a catch-all phrase and includes almost anything electronic that displays or transports information. This article focuses primarily on the transportation of information and the provision of applications in a connected environment, where connectivity is the defining factor.
The Indian sales and marketing arm of GE Healthcare, the world
The firms plan on using advanced technologies to find cheaper ways to discover blockages in the heart, tumours
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Being one of the most widely used diagnostic tools in modern medicine, ultrasound-based electronic devices are increasingly used to harmlessly reveal the inner structure of human body. The technique, widely known as �ultrasonography� provides high quality visualisation of muscles, tendons, and internal organs, their size, structure and any pathological lesions with real time tomographic images.
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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The telemedicine network becomes essential as in most cases reading the scans can be confusing. Telemedicine also helps make up for the poor health infrastructure in this large disparately growing country.
[This article was published in the August 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Philips is one of the leading players in healthcare, mainly in the markets of medical diagnostics and patient monitoring systems that include X-Ray, general ultrasound, computed tomography (CT) scanning and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
[This article was published in the May 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The use of digital imaging by healthcare organizations provides advantages over the use of other imaging techniques.
Cuba has developed a transmission system of digital medical images, named Imagis, which is providing telemedicine services to several hospitals of Cuba.
Tested extensively during the TENPET project, the telecommunications and tele-consultation platform is due to start being deployed commercially from September 2006 in Europe.
