telemedicine

Telemedicine Networks Are Essential for Health Care Reform

harminka — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:21:27 -0500

The U.S. healthcare system is in critical need of basic change to enable more equitable, effective, efficient care. Experts in various fields of medicine, public health, and industry propose that telemedicine, or information technology enhanced healthcare, must be core component of viable healthcare reform strategy, view they forcefully present in a white paper published online ahead of print in Telemedicine and e-Health, peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

Telemedicine To Improve Care For School Children With Diabetes

harminka — Thu, 21 May 2009 06:25:32 -0500

Type 1 diabetes is the most common chronic childhood disease. The management of this serious medical condition includes regular fingerstick glucose measurements, multiple daily injections of insulin, and frequent insulin dose adjustments. Because children spend a great deal of their time in school, school nurses often supervise medical decisions and diabetes care.

Telehealth for diabetes promotes aging at home

harminka — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:37:26 -0500

A large study of ethnically and racially diverse individuals with diabetes has found that home telemonitoring of their health resulted in significantly fewer deaths than in a similar group that was not monitored. Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.

Telemedicine, Next Step in Health Care

harminka — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:37:18 -0600

Imagine a scenario where doctors from different hospitals can collaborate on a surgery without having to actually be in the operating room. What if doctors in remote locations could receive immediate expert support from top specialists in hospitals around the world?

Telemedicine leads to better stroke treatment decisions

harminka — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:09:23 -0500

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center say that their first-of-its-kind study of a telemedicine program which transports stroke specialists via computer desktop or even laptop to the patient’s bedside, using highly sophisticated video, audio and Internet technology, could have an immediate and profound impact on the treatment of stroke patients throughout the world.

Patients with chronic illness benefit from telehealth intervention

harminka — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:30:17 -0500

Telehealth, using telecommunication technology to deliver health care, is increasingly being used to improve the delivery and availability of health care services to patients. A University of Missouri researcher found that patients who received a telehealth intervention from care providers had significantly delayed hospital readmission rates when compared to patients who received traditional care.

Telemedicine could eradicate many expensive ED visits

harminka — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:35:47 -0500

A community-wide study in upstate New York found that nearly 28 percent of all visits to the pediatric emergency department could have been replaced with a more cost-effective Internet doctor’s “visit,” or telemedicine, according to investigators from the University of Rochester Medical Center.

Talking up new role for cell phones in telemedicine

harminka — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:45:12 -0500

After launching a communications revolution, cell phones are talking up a potentially life-saving new role in telemedicine — the use of telecommunications technology to provide medical diagnosis and patient care when doctors and patients are hundreds or thousands of miles apart.

Videoconferencing can help surgeons make their rounds from distance

harminka — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:34:56 -0600

Using robotic teleconferencing to monitor patients after urologic surgery appears to result in similar patient outcomes and satisfaction as traditional bedside rounds, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Telemedicine, health alert via satellite

harminka — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:02:06 -0600

An earthquake has just shaken the Greek island. Damage is widespread and all conventional, terrestrial communications have been destroyed. The rescue operations have only one means at their disposal that has not been affected by the quake - a satellite which, from its altitude of 36 000 kilometres, can immediately link the locations involved in the catastrophe with the appropriate authorities.

Intel Expands Digital Accessibility and Education Initiatives in Nigeria

harminka — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:19:38 -0500

Telemedicine and Education Projects Launched by Intel Chairman Demonstrate Potential to Transform Millions of Lives

Enhancing quality, security of wireless telemedicine

harminka — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:51:08 -0500

A team of researchers led by Fei Hu, assistant professor of computer engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology, is working to advance the integration of radio frequency identification technology, also known as RFID, into cardiac sensor networks, a new wireless technology for telemedicine delivery.