| A possible Asian flu pandemic: Business Continuity Planning for an outbreak of the H5N1 Avian Flu should integrate TeleWork said a Webcast on 15 December 2005 | |
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8 December 2005. The potential economic impact of a pandemic outbreak of the H5N1 Avian Flu has been estimated at $166 billion in the United States alone, according to the Centre for Desease Control (CDC), with a chief effect perhaps being prolonged periods of large-scale employee absenteeism. For more visit: www.pandemicflu.gov Discussion about ... (read article) |
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| Telemedicine wins three out of four awards from Polycom for the Innovative Use of Videoconferencing; (1)a 57-site video network for the hospitals of Southwestern Ontario; (2) Canada's national center for minimally invasive procedures; and (3) interpretation at an affiliate of Harvard Medical School | |
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12 December 2005. Polycom®, Inc. has announced four winners of Elliot Gold`s "Wild & Unexpected Applications" awards presented at this year`s Polycom User Group (PUG) Conference in Phoenix, Ariz. The four winners include VideoCare, South Korea and the Democratic People`s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Canadian Surgical Technologies & Advanced Robotics (CSTAR) and Beth Israel Deacone... (read article) |
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| Polycom video conferencing systems have been installed in 14 sites across the Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire Cancer Network to make optimum use of the time and advise of Cancer Specialists | |
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6 December 2005. The Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire (SWSH) Cancer Network Video Conferencing Project has expanded and upgraded its Polycom video communications solution to address the national shortage of cancer specialists and palliative care professionals. The SWSH Network has now deployed Polycom VSX™ 7000 and VSX™ 3000 video conferencing systems to maximise the availability of expert res... (read article) |
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| The 6th National Congress of the Italian Association for Telemedicine and Medical Informatics meets in Ancona this week; key sessions will be relayed by Aethra video systems to Russia and Eastern Europe | |
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29, November 2005. Aethra is participating in the 6th National Congress @ITIM 2005 organised by @ITIM (the Italian Association for Telemedicine and Medical Informatics), which is taking place this week at the Faculty of Medicine (Università Politecnica delle Marche) in Ancona from December 1-3, 2005. (The Congressweb site is: www.aitim.net) The Congress @ITI... (read article) |
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| The emphasis is on digital radiography (DR) at the Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting (RSNA 2005) being held in Chicago this week from 27 November to 2 December | |
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28 November 2005. RSNA 2005 will attract more than 62,000 visitors this week at the McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago, IL. Radiologists will share experience and examine the latest equipment for digital imaging. We have selected from the 700 vendors exhibits a few that facilitate mobile DR, streaming of still images and motion video, and remote diagnosis ... all essential ingredi... (read article) |
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| Apollo Hospitals of India has signed an MoU with Johns Hopkins Medicine International; the second opinion of Johns Hopkins' and other U.S. medical specialists will become available to its Indian parients | |
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18 July 2005. Posted 21 November 2005. Apollo Hospitals Group, the largest in India, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Johns Hopkins Medicine International. The MoU was signed today by Steven J. Thompson, senior vice-president and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine International, and Pratap C. Reddy, chairman of the Apollo Hospitals Group. |
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| A Sony networked video solution is used for training and more by The Challenge Evangelical Huyssens Foundation Hospital in Essen, Germany, a hospital specialising in keyhole surgery | |
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Posted 21 November 2005. The Challenge Evangelical Huyssens Foundation Hospital in Essen, Germany is a large 687-bed hospital specialising in minimal invasive surgery, where complex internal procedures are performed using “keyhole” techniques. Keyhole surgery depends heavily on video technology, with surgeons performing operations by viewing video images of the inside of a patient’s body withou... (read article) |
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| The Electronics company Philips India is expanding its presence in the Indian healthcare delivery system by putting more mobile units on telemedicine buses which travel to remote villages | |
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13 November 2005. Gerard J. Kleisterlee, President and Chief Executive Officer of Royal Philips Electronics, The Netherlands, said "Women in villages are already seeing the benefits of telemedicine. We now look forward to extending the technology to interior rural pockets.” During a vist visit to the Apollo Speciality Hospitals, he told a correspondent of The Hindu nespaper that village... (read article) |
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| Aethra receives Frost & Sullivan’s 2005 Product Innovation Of The Year Award for Telemedicine and Televideo Solutions; Aethra telemedicine solutions recognized again as the best in the world | |
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11 November 2005. Aethra® has received the “Product Innovation Award of the Year in the field of telemedicine and televideo solutions” from Frost & Sullivan. Aethra has already received several recognitions for its telemedicine solutions starting with the Eykona 700, for remote exchange of medical information (including images and vital signs) between doctors. We ourselves ha... (read article) |
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| Ullevaal University Hospital in Oslo is Norways ’s largest hospital. SONY installed a video network to transport any combination of “live” video, video recordings and DICOM images | |
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Posted 14 November 2005. Ullevaal University Hospital (Ullevål Sykehus) in Oslo is Norways ’s largest hospital. With 1,200 beds and 45,000 patients admitted per year, its outpatient clinics perform around 280,000 consultations per year. Building on its reputation for research and teaching, the busy hospital wished to enhance the quality and efficiency of medical care offered to patients. ... (read article) |
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| Canadian doctors conference with their colleagues in Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories to share expertise on everything from diagnoses to treatments; it’s peace-building from the bottom up | |
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7 November 2005. Use telemedicine as a Message for Peace ... that is the example being set by a telemedicine project launched in Toronto, Canada on 24 October at the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care. It entails genuine co-operation between Arabs and Jews to mutually share medical expertise. The new project is titled the “International Network of Knowledge through Ele... (read article) |
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| Emirates Hospital in Dubai uses advanced visual communication systems from TANDBERG to link patients and doctors in Dubai with specialists at affiliated medical centers abroad | |
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June 2004 posted 7 November 2005. Emirates Hospital opened in May 2003 at the edge of Dubai’s beautiful Jumeirah Beach Park. Patients from throughout the Middle East travel to the Emirates Hospital in Dubai for treatment in more than a dozen medical specialties ranging from plastic surgery to pediatrics. The hospital’s forte is providing same-day surgery in a pleasant, residence-like setting ju... (read article) |
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| Cornell University is bridging cultural boundaries and setting new standards for medical education for M.D. in the Middle East with its pioneering medical college in the Gulf State of Qatar | |
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7 November 2005. Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) offers students in the region an unprecedented opportunity to access a world-class medical education without having to travel thousands of miles from home to the United States. Cornell University established the campus in partnership with the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, following an ... (read article) |
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| Aethra’s Theseus Videophone for home care selected for the Digital Home of the Future developed by CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano’s Center for ICT Research, Innovation and Education | |
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24 October 2005.- Aethra is providing a a Theseus videophone to carry out remote check-ups of respiratory functions and other vital parameters to the innovative digital home project, developed by CEFRIEL, the Italian centre for ICT Research, Innovation and Education of Politecnico Milan, one of the most important universities in Italy. The focal point of this Digital Home of the Future... (read article) |
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| A Teleradiology Service set up in the UK by 4 Ways Healthcare (an Indian Company) uses radiologists who are retired NHS employees, others who wish to work part-time and Indian expertise. | |
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Posted 10 october 2005. There is an acute shortage of radiologists in the UK. In March 2005 4 Ways Healthcare (an Indian Company) launched TeleRad, a collaborative radiology reporting service that offers a teleradiology service for digital x-ray, MRI and CT. From its centre in Hemel Hempstead, specialist radiologists undertake services designed to meet specific needs. The service is de... (read article) |
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| California’s Assembly Bill 354 adds teledermatology and teleophthalmology to the list of procedures using video store and forward technology that will be eligible for Medi-Cal reimbursement. | |
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Posted 10 october 2005. Governor Schwarzenegger has signed Assembly Bill 354 into law. |
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| Video South Medical Television has installated a specially-designed multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meeting room in eight hospitals in Lancashire and Cumbria using TANDBERG 2500 codecs | |
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28 September 2005. Lancashire and South Cumbria Health Trust has one of the most advanced telemedicine videoconference networks in use in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The TANDBERG systems installed by Video South Medical Television in eight hospitals allow high levels of case conferencing between any number of them in a multi point meeting. This is to satisfy the... (read article) |
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| The gastroenterology department at St. George’s Hospital in Tooting, South London has installed a videoconferencing and A/V presentation system for teaching with endoscopy images | |
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26 Septmember 2005. St. George’s Hospital in Tooting, South London has installed a TANDBERG 6000 videoconferencing and A/V presentation system integral to the entire gastroenterology department. The facility was designed and supplied by Video South Medical Television of Bath (www.videosouth.co.uk). (The picture shows an endoscopy in progress.) T... (read article) |
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| Hurricane Katrina: the relief program to help disaster-struck people to start rebuilding supported by Conferencing Companies and their employees contributting money and/or equipment and services | |
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12 September 2005. Here are four examples of how the conferencing industry itself is helping. (1) A coalition of video conferencing technology leaders and interactive educators are helping students support the victims of hurricane Katrina through video conferencing technology. Global Nomads Group, Polycom, Inc., Glowpoint, Inc., and IDSolutions organized a video conference link... (read article) |
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| Telemedicine-related actions taken in response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster; The American Telemedicine Association reports that there have been numerous offers of assistance | |
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Posted 12 September 2005. The American Telemedicine Association has compiled brief reports on telemedicine-related actions taken in response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster. There has been a huge outpouring of offers of assistance from telemedicine programs and vendors as well as the health care community as a whole. A number of individual ATA programs have been asked by their state ... (read article) |
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| In the north of Michigan State, USA, The Upper Peninsula Telehealth Network (UPTN) brings Advanced Medicine to Rural Communities using Polycom Group and PC videoconferencing systems | |
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Posted 22 August 2005. The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is predominantly forest, dotted with lakes and small towns. To provide an idea of its size, it takes six hours to travel from one end to the other. Although its population of 317,000 is on a par with a city like Pittsburgh, its inhabitants are scattered throughout the region. The Upper Peninsula's largest city, Marquette (populatio... (read article) |
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| Brain Saving Technologies (BST) addresses the need for timely treatment of stroke with Neuro-TeleMD Consortiums to furnish 24/7 telemedicine diagnosis and treatment recommendations | |
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Posted 22 August 2005. Brain Saving Technologies (BST), headquartered in Wellesley Hills, Mass., launched a new approach to address the need for the rapid, effective treatment of stroke patients in December 2004. Founded and led by physicians, BST is a health services management company, contractually affiliated with professional corporations and hospitals. BST is committed to... (read article) |
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