Telemedicine: boon for rural India

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.

One lakh mobiles for health workers, volunteers

This initiative will improve the health service delivery system in the rural areas. All the 55,400 women health volunteers in the State will receive mobile phones.

Indonesia’s fight against malnutrition to be supported by ADB

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is supporting efforts by the Government of Indonesia to reduce malnutrition among poor children and pregnant women to put the country on track to achieving the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Indonesia’s fight against malnutrition to be supported by ADB

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is supporting efforts by the Government of Indonesia to reduce malnutrition among poor children and pregnant women to put the country on track to achieving the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Telemedicine set to SMS blood pressure report to doctor

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.

Nurses go wireless in Essen

Soon the nursing service at Essen University Hospital will become wireless as part of its ambitious wireless health IT project.

Rhapsody integration engine expands NHS Trust connectivity

Orion Health Limited, a leading provider of integration and clinical workflow technology to the health sector, has recently announced that Rhapsody

New York Governor launches comprehensive health information technology program

New York, Governor Eliot Spitzer’s recently announced the launch a comprehensive health information technology program

UAE government announced new federal health strategy and modernisation program

The Ministry of Health, UAE has announced 35 initiatives in public healthcare to be implemented in the next three years. The ministry is seeking to become the regulator of healthcare services under the new health strategy for 2008 to 2010, which includes unifying healthcare policies and offering more medical specialties.

IBM/Mainsoft Portal Solution to Serve Medical Community

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 technology gets an upgrade in Northern Canada

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

Life-saving technology gets an upgrade in Northern Canada

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.

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[This article was published in the September 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

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