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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)]
The medical equipment market in India is growing at an annual rate of 15% and is expected to touch US$ 4.98 billion by 2012. With a highly unregulated environment in terms of quality, reliability, pricing and control, uncertainty rules the roost. Often, it�s a confusing maze for care providers and medical professionals, and the brunt of all this has to be borne solely by those at the end of the chain – �the patients� !
There is a dire need for a legal framework and a regulatory agency to look after the industry. How far have we reached? Is the Government taking the right steps? eHEALTH takes stock of the matter.
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.
GPs in Wales will be able to access patient details more easily as hospitals in the country are set to receive
Satyam Computer Services Ltd recently announced that its global healthcare practice, working with the Byrraju Foundation, has implemented a program to provide tele-electrocardiograms (ECGs) to patients in remote areas of the country who would otherwise have no access to such care.
The largest health system in the Baltimore-Washington area, with 147,000 inpatient admissions and 1.5 million outpatient visits a year, has tapped Kansas City-based technology company Cerner to implement several Cerner Millennium applications throughout the healthcare system.
A partnership between GE Healthcare and CenTrak, Inc., a tracking solutions provider based in Newtown, Pa., has led to the development of a predominantly battery-operated radio frequency ID tracking system.
Staff at emergency rooms at hospitals will soon be able to monitor and reach patients in time thanks to scientists who have developed a novel integrated wireless system that monitors patients
Robosoft’s Robuter prototype French robotic specialist Robosoft has demonstrated a prototype service robot which can help elderly and handicapped people stay at home.
The robot, launched at Microsoft’s Innovation Day in Brussels at the end of 2007, is a home-centric
robot, which combines the internet and robotics technology to provide daily-life services to people staying at home.
Filipino doctors have been extending their virtual healing hands to patients based in remote areas in the country.
[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org) ]
