Search Tag: telemedicine
Agfa HealthCare/Worldline Enter Rgional Imaging Agreement with Alsace e-santé
2014 22 Jan
Agreement will deliver a series of shared services to healthcare and radiology facilities across Alsace Agfa HealthCare and Worldline are acting as a consortium to implement an innovative solution for sharing medical images. The SIMRAL project foresees to archive and share more than 1 million imaging exams per year, amongst 53 facilities... Read more
Legal Aspects of Telemedicine
2013 28 Nov
Author Dr. Jan Schillebeeckx Ehealth stakeholder (European Society of Radiology representative) European Commission Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology (DG Connect) Key Points Telemedicine is high on the European political agenda; By 2020 telemedicine will be widely... Read more
Telemedicine: A Way to Decrease Patient Waiting Times in ED in the U.S.
2013 12 Jun
Emergency department (ED) overcrowding has been a major issue nationally for 20 years and continues to increase in severity. To address this issue, a pilot study has been launched at UC San Diego Health System's ED to use telemedicine as a way to help address crowding and decrease patient wait times. The study is the first of its kind in California... Read more
Mayo Clinic Telemedicine Study Under Way in Rural Honduras
2013 12 Jun
Every day, thousands of volunteer medical relief groups offer care to patients and assistance to understaffed medical teams in remote, underdeveloped locations around the world. Often these groups of doctors and nurses come for a short time, offer care and return home. Once they leave what then? "The difficulty is continuity of care," says Blake Fechtel,... Read more
InTouch Health & iRobot Announce First Customers to Install RP-VITATM, The New Face of Telemedicine
2013 15 May
RP-VITA can speed specialized care to patients during the critical minutes following a stroke. (Photo: Business Wire). Top academic medical centers and leading healthcare systems across North America are now introducing their patients to RP-VITATM, the first FDA-cleared telemedicine robot that combines state-of-the-art telecommunications and... Read more