Telemedicine

ENN: "Telemedicine" links Africans to Indian expertise

Submitted by admin on Sat, 05/04/2008 - 08:44.

Troubled by a difficult case, doctor Asfaw Atnafu decides to seek advice.

He walks into a consulting room at Black Lion Hospital in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa and greets a doctor at the Care Hospital in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.

Linked by a high-speed Internet connection, the doctors study X-rays and laboratory results.

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Washington Post: Rural Health Groups to Get Millions From FCC

Submitted by admin on Wed, 21/11/2007 - 08:53.

The Federal Communications Commission announced $417 million in grants yesterday to help rural health-care groups build high-speed Internet networks to connect isolated clinics to sophisticated medical resources in urban areas.

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e-Health and Telemedicine (eHT) Workshop

15/11/2007 - 10:45
16/11/2007 - 10:45

eHT introduces participants to telemedicine technology and rural and remote health care delivery. Participants will examine the types of advanced technologies which are fast becoming commonplace. The workshop includes:
* Medical Informatics
* Nursing Informatics
* Clinical Decision Support Systems
* Project Management
* Electronic Patient Records
* Internet and Telemedicine

Location(s)

University Club of Western Australia
Perth
Australia
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Business Week: Rural folk to tap e-medicine

Submitted by admin on Tue, 31/07/2007 - 15:24.

Rural health care providers may soon get diagnostic solutions from the Internet for patients whose situations prove complex to treat. This is expected to be achieved through the tele-medicine technology that provides medical information for diagnosis.
The tool, an online medical reference called Map of Medicine contains information for diagnosis of various diseases. It will act as a consultancy tool for health providers who can not get the right diagnosis for a patient in the rural or urban areas in Kenya.

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Balancing Act: Mobile service helps bring down infant mortality in Mali

Submitted by admin on Tue, 31/07/2007 - 15:16.

In Coura, a district of Mali's capital Bamako, it's now possible to monitor the health of local infants closely in real time with the launch of a new pilot project dubbed Pesinet. Initiated and funded by Alcatel-Lucent, Fondation Orange Mali, Afrique Initiatives, Medicament Export (Medex) and Kafo Yeredeme, the project aims to provide a preventative medical diagnostic service for infants between 0-5 years, based on regular checks on the childrens' weight gain.

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ICTA: Telemedicine at the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital

Submitted by admin on Wed, 20/06/2007 - 15:45.

For the poor, a healthy body is an important asset and ill health can have serious implications to their capacity for earning a living. Yet, providing quality healthcare to the vast majority of the poor living in remote rural areas is a significant challenge. One of the many ways in which ICT can facilitate health care is through remote consultation, diagnosis, and treatment through telemedicine.

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EFY Times: Telemedicine Is The Call Of E-Governance

Submitted by admin on Thu, 03/05/2007 - 05:29.

Telemedicine is the most challenging sector in this millennium, which has immense potential in India. Realising this, the Central Government has sanctioned nearly an amount of Rs 25- 30 crores to the state governments of West Bengal and Tripura to render telemedicine zones in these two states.

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ENN: Digitally disadvantaged strive to get online

Submitted by admin on Thu, 28/09/2006 - 13:02.

Speaking at UN headquarters in New York, the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, praised business, finance, government and the media for helping improve access to digital technologies.

Annan said by participating in the UN's new Global Alliance for ICT and Development, they helped to give important direction to the UN's drive for an open and prosperous information society.

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