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Daily FYI October 13, 2009 Telemedicine Sites to Help Children Source: Federal Telemedicine News Many people living in rural or remote Texas communities know that one of the biggest challenges is to access pediatric health services. More than half of the counties in Texas do not have a general pediatrician and in many cases, gaining access to pediatric care involves lengthy travel to locations where pediatric healthcare specialists are available.
In-home checkups provided Source: Mankato Free Press Through the use of new in-home telemonitoring technology, patients served by Good Samaritan Society Home Care throughout Blue Earth, Brown, Le Sueur, Nicollet and Sibley counties are getting a checkup every day in the comfort of their homes. The Honeywell HomMed Health Telehealth Monitoring System allows staff to provide daily, real-time clinical information, according to Nancy Vogel, director of home care.
Using Telemedicine to Cope with Possible Flu Outbreak Source: 13wham.com The Golisano Children’s Hospital is preparing to use technology as a way to help cope with a possible swine flu outbreak. The hospital already uses telemedicine to allow doctors to see patients in other parts of town using a webcam, but administrators say that the system would be ideal for dealing with the swine flu.
Telemedicine Market to Hit $3.6 Billion Source: Health Data Management The market for telemedicine devices and services will generate $3.6 billion in annual revenue within five years, a new study claims. The study by the Silver Spring, Md.-based research firm Pike & Fischer, says mobile-services companies, such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and Nextel, will take a sizeable chunk of the business. It predicts that smaller software and device manufacturers likely will be targets for acquisition.
Google Health partners with 'telehealth' patient-doctor service Source: Medical Marketing & Media Google Health announced the integration of MDLiveCare technology, a service that offers patients access to doctors from remote locations, via webcam or telephone, into its personal health record offering. The partnership, announced today during the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco, allows MDLiveCare to flow an individual's medical data into a Google Health personal health record (PHR).
Telesurgery Successful in Iraq Source: Federal Telemedicine News According to a story appearing in MC4’s September newsletter issue of “The Gateway”, LTC T. Sloane Guy IV, M.D., a cardiothoracic surgeon, found that he was not always doing run-of-the-mill procedures in his specialty. However, as Chief of Clinical Services with the 249th General Hospital in Afghanistan until 2006, he successfully completed all of his procedures but he would have been happy with another specialist or two by his side. He could see the need especially in his case to contact with operating rooms in the U.S. to talk to other specialists and to help him assist with his procedures from afar.
Telemedicine Spending to Approach $3.6 Billion Annually by 2014, Report Projects Source: Earth Times The market for telemedicine devices and services will generate nearly $3.6 billion in annual revenue within the next five years, with mobile-services companies taking a sizeable chunk of that business, market research firm Pike & Fischer projects in a new report. The need to control costs, along with the development and expansion of faster wireless broadband networks, smartphones, and data compression solutions, will drive the market growth, P&F says. |
