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Daily FYI November 06, 2009 Remote Heart-Monitoring Platform Begins Validation Source: CNN Money STMicroelectronics collaborates with Mayo Clinic to accelerate development and deployment of innovative telemedicine solutions. STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), one of the world’s leading semiconductor companies, and Mayo Clinic, a premier health-care organization, are collaborating on a novel platform for remotely monitoring patients with chronic cardiovascular disease. The platform will provide a comprehensive and unobtrusive solution that monitors person-specific data and physiological parameters and influences lifestyle and treatment choices.
School-Based Telehealth in Line for Double-Barreled Boost Source: iHealthBeat Kids in public schools -- particularly those in low-income families and living in medically underserved areas -- could be getting more medical attention through school-based telehealth networks, according to a new report from a national children's advocacy group. The Children's Partnership says its report, "School-Based Telehealth: An Innovative Approach To Meet the Health Care Needs of California Children," is a blueprint for getting care to children who otherwise wouldn't get it.
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. |
