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Daily FYI November 04, 2009 Telehealth On The Rise Source: Healthcare Technology Online Do you remember when physicians regularly arrived on a patient's doorstep, black bag in hand, ready to provide on-site medical treatment? Probably not. This practice is more readily associated with a bygone era than it is with modern day medicine. However, recent advancements in telehealth have contributed to a resurgence in doctor house calls — well, at least virtual house calls anyway.
Entra Health Systems and the Telemedicine Reference Center Launch the First Mobile... Source: Reuters Entra Health Systems, an international applied healthcare technology company, and the Telemedicine Reference Center Ltd. (TRCL) of Dhaka, a pioneer in eHealth, today launched AmCare -- Intensive Diabetes Management, the world's first integrated mobile phone-based telehealth network that uses MyGlucoHealth Wireless diabetic monitoring technology. In Bangladesh, TRCL will operate eHealth call centers to provide diabetes patient care using Entra Health's new MyGlucoHealth Wireless Bluetooth(R)-enabled blood glucose meter.
'Teletrauma' Tools Help Boost Emergency Care in Rural Areas of Maine Source: iHealthBeat New videoconferencing technologies are helping rural health centers in Maine connect with trauma specialists at the Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, the Bangor Daily News reports. The "teletrauma" system uses high-resolution cameras and monitors to help remote medical centers communicate with EMMC in real time.
HEALTH CARE AND TELEMEDICINE Source: The Cypress Times Telemedicine is the practice of health care delivery, diagnosis, consultation, treatment and the transfer of medical data through interactive audio, video or data communications that occur in the physical presence of the patient, including audio or video communications sent to a health care provider for diagnostic or treatment consultation, according to Telemed.org. Thanks to factors including a looming physician shortage, the health care reform debate and the increasing willingness of insurance companies to pay for the practice, telehealth is on the verge of becoming routine, according to the Baltimore Sun. Remote consultation and diagnosis are ways for medicine to become more efficient even as physicians and other health professionals are increasingly in short supply.
AET's Telemedicine Solution Offers Real-Time Echocardiogram Consult Source: TMCnet Healthcare Technology Telemedicine solution provider American Educational Telecommunications, or AET, is making waves in the medical field with telepresence technology. The company recently completed a real-time remote diagnosis of a newborn baby's heart murmur between Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk, Neb. and Children's Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Neb.
A virtual world for amputees Source: Nextgov Three virtual reality companies have started to develop an online world for amputees with funding from the Army's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center. The Amputee Virtual Environment Support Space (AVESS) project will research the needs of soldiers who suffered wounds that resulted in amputation and establish protocols and prototypes for addressing those needs in a virtual environment.
From Hawaii to New York, online consultation slowly takes off Hawaii Medical Service Association has been offering $10 online consultations with doctors for its members since early this year. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is piloting a similar program now, with plans to take it statewide in 2010. American Well and UnitedHealth Group subsidiary OptumHealth are teaming up to offer nationwide online consults. In Brooklyn, N.Y., Hello Health, an innovative practice made up of young physicians serving young adults, encourages patients to contact their doctors via email, instant message, text message, or a Facebook-like networking site. |
