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The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) of India has expanded its telemedicine connectivity at its cancer treatment facility.The facility will also provide consultations to the SAARC and pan-African countries
The Asian Heart Institute (AHI) of Mumbai has launched its telemedicine facility for heart patients of the city.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona (BCBSAZ) and University Medical Center (UMC) in Tucson have announced that three additional rural Arizona hospitals will now have real-time access to UMC teletrauma specialists through the Telemedicine for Teletrauma program.
University Medical Center has added three more hospitals to its telemedicine/teletrauma program. Now a total of five rural hospitals are getting high-tech assistance in their emergency rooms.
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.
Soon, blood pressure patients in Chandigarh (India) would be able to send their blood pressure reports to doctors’ cell phone via SMS with the help of mobile handset.
IBM and Mainsoft Corporation, recently announced that the Belgian University Hospital Ghent (UZ Gent) has chosen IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 to develop a self-service virtual information center for its 5,000 staff members, students, healthcare professionals, plus more than 380,000 patients and their families that visit the hospital each year.
Life saving diagnosis of a patient who survived stroke in North Bay, Canada with remote assistance from a neurologist 300 Km away in Toronto via telecommunications technology and digital brain images captured and transmitted by using computers, cameras and software
The Canadian Northland Transportation Commission. commission’s telecommunications branch will invest about $4 million to improve and expand bandwidth and security for healthcare services. The work will allow all 117 hospitals in North Canada to link up to a high capacity healthcare network.
MedLink will provide flight attendants and pilots with a one-call solution for in-flight medical situations, through board-certified physicians working at a level-one trauma center in Phoenix, Arizona.
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.
The Federal Government of Australia has unveiled a new Internet based health system for remote areas. The new health system will ensure health issues identified in Aboriginal children.
The former President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam has inaugurated the web-based telemedicine link at the IIT campus of Hyderabad with the cooperation of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, US.
