Now US doctors get free e-Prescribing software

Soon US doctors would be able to access free and web based electronic medicine prescribing software.

Cuba boosts telemedicine service

Cuba has developed a transmission system of digital medical images, named Imagis, which is providing telemedicine services to several hospitals of Cuba.

Sindh Govt plans to set 23 telemedicine centres

Sindh Government is setting basic centres of telemedicine services in all districts of the province. Telemedicine will play a major role in providing modern facilities to the people of remote rural areas of Sindh, Pakistan.

SGPGI will play key role in telemedicine project in India

The School of Telemedicine, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) is going to play major role to provide telemedicine services in the National Network of Medical Colleges.

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

The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the USA has initiated its efforts to revolutionize prosthetic devices for amputee soldiers.

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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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Tetra radios, upgrades emergency health services in UK

The Department of Health (DoH) is planning to install over 1800 Tetra radio terminals in all The NHS Ambulance Trusts in England.

Record health records on iPod

New software called HealthFrame 2.1 has been launched in the US, which allows patients to access their personal health records using an iPod.

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.

Drishtee offers e-Health initiatives in rural Bihar, India

An e-Governance initiative by Drishtee, a network orchestrator is delivering fee based services in rural population of Madhubani district in Bihar, India.

Health Department goes online in South Africa

The Department of Health in South Africa has launched a new website to provide easy access of government programmes and services to public.

Telemedicine helps to monitor critical patients

Physicians and doctors of Parkview Health hospitals are monitoring their critical patients though telemedicine technology.

BP, Intel, Wal-Mart to launch electronic medical record system

Applied Materials Inc., British Petroleum America Inc., Intel Corp., Pitney Bowes Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., are funding a nonprofit institute to develop “Dossia”, a Web-based electronic health record system, which can be used for storing health information of 2.5 million employees and departments.