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2013 CES sports some cool new health tech

Self empowerment, self care, and remote care all hit the CES (Computer Electronics Show - one of the largest gadget get togethers on Earth) this 2013.  Remote physician kiosks hit the top of my list [+]

Emerging Home Patient Monitoring Technologies

The area of health care is no longer contained between the four corners of   health and medical institutions and hospitals. Health and clinical issues as well as patient management are now more accessible even as [+]

TelePharmacy, Awaited With Anticipation

Today, businesses small or large are using the power of internet to revolutionize healthcare. When various businesses engage in transformation, potential profits derived from the internet are increased manifold. Healthcare industry, [+]

Technology Innovations for Under-Served and Under-Privileged Patients

There is an ever increasing disease-burden gap between developing and developed countries. Consequently, people involved in health care industry are thinking of ways to develop and implement effective healthcare technologies to [+]

LifeBot® Signs Ambulance EMS Telemedicine Technologies Developed with U.S. Army

LifeBot, LLC acted today to expand its technology position in emergency telemedicine communications. Combining DREAMStm with LifeBot® patented technologies promises to make available the most powerful and advanced prehospital EMS communications systems. Considered by many [+]

Enabling Remote Heart Monitoring with AT&T and eCardio

AT&T is providing Houston-based eCardio Diagnostics with machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless data and mobile connectivity for near real-time, remote monitoring of cardiac patients. Andrew Arroyo, Vice President of IT for eCardio, discusses [+]

What might the future look like for E-Patients?

What does the future hold for an online patient? On a personal note, I believe the future looks rosy for the internet based patient (but that could easily be because of my day [+]

Telemedicine broken down, and today’s need

Long before sophisticated technology had infiltrated the health care industry, patients had to take a trip to doctors/physicians to seek medical care. People had to travel far and wide to access health [+]

Pilot Study of Providing Online Care in a Primary Care Setting

PATIENTS AND METHODS: A pilot study of using the Internet for online care (“e-visits”) was conducted in the Department of Family Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Patients in the department preregistered [+]

Telemedicine’s favorite son, Teleradiology

With the help of tele-radiology, patients can now avail services of a radiologist without being physically present in the same room with them. There is a great need for professionals who can analyze [+]

$8 million project to test telemedicine for elderly

One of Minnesota's largest providers of supportive housing for seniors will begin testing telemedicine and sensor technology to help frail seniors stay healthier and delay institutional care under an $8 million grant [+]

The Values of Healthpresence

Healthpresence can be defined as health care at a distance that allows patients and doctors to interact even when they are not physically present in the same room. This is possible due [+]

Tele-Pharmacy Advantages and Disadvantages

Tele-pharmacy has been defined by “The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy” as “the provision of pharmaceutical care through the use of telecommunications and information technologies to patients at a distance.” Tele-pharmacy is [+]

Healthcare Innovation at Scottish Technology Showcase 2010: Tom Morton

Tom Morton, MD Argyll Telecom, talks about his company's solution to an NHS client request that resulted in a software solution addressing a lone worker risk management system and leading to the company's [+]

Telemedicine in Africa

Presentation on Telemedicine for Primary Rural Health Delivery at African Union Summit AU Summit 2010 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia [+]

USTelecom Vidcast: Broadband Health

USTelecom CEO Walter McCormick talks about how broadband is unleashing the next frontier in medicine. [+]

AT&T Telehealth at #HIMSS10

Demonstration of remote patient monitoring at the HIMSS 2010 conference. Telemedicine allows skilled professionals to monitor patients' vital signs even while the patient - or the caregiver - is at home or another remote location. [+]

Physician Uses Cell Phones for Health Care of Poor

Epidemiologist Joel Selanikio has used the explosion in mobile phone technology and the World Wide Web to deliver more effective public health services throughout the developing world. Dr. Selanikio and his organization DataDyne.org are making [+]

Mr. Gadget CES 2010 eHealth

Steve Kruschen, Mr. Gadget®, provides a first-look at the Continua Health Alliance. Continua Health Alliance is a non-profit, open industry coalition of the finest healthcare and technology companies joining together in collaboration to improve [+]

Introducing Telehealth from Emory Heart & Vascular Center

The Emory Heart & Vascular Center now offers Telehealth, a relatively new way to bring healthcare closer to patients. Using videoconferencing technology to transmit live video and medical information, Emory Heart & Vascular specialists can [+]

Health Care Over Broadband Saves Lives and Money

The Brookings Institute discusses the nature and need of Telemedicine around the world. Telemedicine combines cutting edge technology with advanced medicine to improve patient care and cut costs. [+]

Microsoft and Emory Univ collaborate on H1N1 Response Center

Microsoft and Emory University launched a new website Tuesday with the purpose of enabling patients and creating an intersection of health care and technology during the H1N1 crisis. I was one of ten health technology bloggers [+]

TeleAudiology from South Africa to Dallas Texas

After receiving a hearing test through telemedicine a patient in Pretoria South Africa is counselled regarding his hearing loss by an Audiologist from Dallas, Texas. [+]

Telehealth in the UK

Adrian Flowerday, Managing Director of Docobo Ltd is also the Chair of the Telehealth Group. This Group works to promote wider and larger procurements of assistive technologies (eg telehealth and telecare) in the [+]

Nefsis, Teleconferencing done right Time for Telemedicine?

I have been using video conferencing before video conferencing was cool. You know... back in the days when Microsoft Net Meeting was the unparalleled awesomeness of communication. Throughout the years many different products [+]