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.

Telemedicine system using interactive digital television

harminka — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:30:45 -0500

Telecommunications engineer at the Public University of Navarre, Alejandro Fanjul FernÃƒÂ¡ndez, has designed a pioneering system of telemedicine for interactive digital television. This system enables the monitoring and treatment of and support for both patients and elderly people, from the comfort and convenience of their homes, by means of the television.