Gill Hitchcock, Guardian Professional
“Travelling by light aircraft, boat or a drive off-road might come as a pleasant change to city commuters, but for the Falkland Islands’ chief medical officer (CMO) it’s essential part of delivering health services.
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Ereso AQ et al, Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 211(3)
Background
Certain clinical environments, including military field hospitals or rural medical centers, lack readily available surgical subspecialists. We hypothesized that telementoring by a surgical subspecialist using a robotic platform is feasible and can convey subspecialty knowledge and skill to a remotely located general surgeon.
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Roger Shindell, Ezine articles
“These days, the U.S. government seems more intent than ever on encouraging practitioners to take active steps to improve the patient experience. Though the primary focus of this grand initiative has focused on electronic health records, there’s another form of technology that, if adopted, can benefit patients tremendously for the long haul: remote monitoring devices.
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Chris, News-in-Tech
“Trials have begun in Kent, Cornwall and East London’s Newham borough for the use of remote medical monitors for individuals with chronic illnesses.
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Joseph Alexander, Pharmabiz.com
“HIV infected persons in the country, specially in the remote areas, will have better access to the treatment soon, if the current plan of the Centre to provide telemedicine facility by linking the ART centres with the centres of excellence to impart specialty services in particular gets through.
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“The digital exchange of health information (often called electronic health records or EHRs) is essential to transforming Canada’s health-care system. Unfortunately, it appears that governments may be quietly re-examining their commitment to creating EHRs as they look for ways to reduce public spending in the wake of large, recession-fuelled deficits. Our advice is that we must continue to move forward.
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M2M
“Increasingly, doctors and patients do not need to be in the same room for treatment and diagnosis to occur.
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Reuters
“STMicroelectronics, 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.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“Electronics are insanely reliable. The links available between devices, base stations, and caregivers, via the Internet, are also improving thanks to Moore’s Law. You can even get remote health monitoring through WiFi.
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Harro ten Wolde, National Post
“Dutch Philips Electronics is betting it can help doctors monitor patients remotely to keep an aging population healthier and battle rising medical costs.
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eHealthNews.EU
“SmartLife® Technology LtdSmartLife Technology has advanced remote monitoring by integrating sophisticated, knitted sensors into any garment from shirts to socks to arm bands. Until now, traditional health monitoring was fashioned through adhesive pads/gels, wired to medical equipment and focused on torso monitoring.
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HSJ
“A think tank claims remote diagnosis using the internet and call centres is the way forward for the NHS.
According to the Future Foundation, remote diagnosis, which is currently being used by the government to assist health staff with the swine flu pandemic, will increasingly be used by the NHS to diagnose conditions such as impotence, sexually transmitted infections and cystitis.
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Hospital Healthcare Europe
“A Sunderland company is about to launch a revolutionary new service that will provide a massive boost to medical professionals in remote and less accessible areas across the globe.
Heridian Limited designs, develops, markets and offers revolutionary web driven solutions in the field of Telemedicine, providing medical professionals with access to advice and opinion from specialists working in any number of medical fields.
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eHealthServer
“eHIT Ltd in collaboration with INS Group, a leading Home and Community Care, Personal Response System provider and Health Call Centre organisation in Australia, have created a mobile health workforce management tool designed to help nurses in providing unmatched patient care remotely.
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Michael Schroeder, The Journal Gazette
“Today, robotic devices affixed with cameras and LCD monitors are plugged into the stroke network at hospitals throughout Parkview Health’s system and other outlying hospitals, although not yet at Lutheran Health Network hospitals.
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Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“Newly developed non-invasive sensors, coupled with body area networks via smart phones or gateway receivers to transmit data over the internet, have the potential to transform medicine according to Eric Topol M.D.
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McKinsey&Company
“The challenges of health care delivery in rural India are several and familiar: poor infrastructure, insufficient supply of skilled doctors, and dispersed poor populations, all of which make affordable care hard to achieve.
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theMobileHealthCrowd
“VivoMetrics has launched the next generation of its LifeShirt for the remote monitoring of patients’ vital signs by healthcare professionals. The compant says that the new LifeShirt has significant advantages over currently available monitoring technologies, dramatically simplifying the way in which key vital sign data is collected and transmitted to remote care providers.
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HealthTech Wire
“Maryland intensive care patients will now be connected by voice, video and data lines to specialized physicians and nurses at a tertiary care referral center 130 miles away.
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Brian Dolan, Mobihealthnews
“Swedish consumer electronics company Doro has been targeting the senior market with easy-to-use devices since 1974, and began offering easy-to-use mobile phones in the Fall of 2007.
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