Many hospitals lack the resources and patient volume to employ a round-the-clock, neonatal intensive care specialist to treat their youngest and sickest patients. Telemedicine—with real-time... Read more
A long-touted health-care revolution may at last be about to arrive THE idea of telemedicine—health care provided using telecommunications equipment—has a lengthy history. Radio News, an Ame... Read more
“We’ve found the majority of patients treated with telemedicine technology have a favorable response,” Doctors at Rady Children’s today introduced new telemedicine robots that put advanced v... Read more
A new study shows that a neurologist in an office thousands of miles away can deliver effective specialized care to people with Parkinson’s disease. For individuals with the condition – many... Read more
Samsung is not working alone on this initiative Using solar power to promote healthcare and education is the concept behind Samsung’s Digital Villages, a project recently launched in South A... Read more
Could be an important step toward the development of useful, practical telemedicine A University of Alabama at Birmingham surgical team has performed one of the first surgeries using a virtu... Read more
A new “telerehabilitation” approach lets physical therapists assess patients with low back pain (LBP) over the Internet A new “telerehabilitation” approach lets physi... Read more
A new Mayo Clinic study confirms the use of smartphones medical images to evaluate stroke patients in remote locations through telemedicine. The study, the first to test the effectiveness of... Read more
Telemedicine is heading in this direction, with control centres that receive large amounts of information and computer systems that detect and analyse irregularities The Instrumentation, Sen... Read more
In a medical emergency, seconds count. But if the doctor needed is in another part of the hospital or even another part of town, then those seconds can stretch dangerously. If only the docto... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Field medicine, for soldiers and civilians alike, gets smarter HALF WAY through a flight from Mumbai to London, a male passenger complains of a swollen right hand and an... Read more