Posted 10 March 2008. The company's CapSure® digital imaging solution of Global media is being used at Barrow Neurological Institute (BNI), located in Phoenix, Ariz., an internationally-recognized leader in neurological research and patient care.

Anatomic and clinical pathologists at BNI turned to GlobalMedia for a more streamlined and superior approach for image acqui...   (read article)

12 February 2008.  Lucid, Inc.has launched  its secure VivaNet(R) telemedicine server and network. The network is designed to transfer and manage clinical data between dermatology practitioners with pathologists or other medical specialists. They would be using Lucid’s non-invasive VivaScope(R) Confocal Imagers

Lucid’s VivaScope(R) confocal imager microscopes...   (read article)

Posted 26 February 2008. A non-profit medical school in the Northeast, realizing that pediatric staff  of their Intensive Care Unit (ICU) was already stretched too thin, sought a solution that would allow physicians to examine their patients at any time, regardless of their physical location.

The doctors were often faced with critical or emergency situations durin...   (read article)

Posted 17 December 2007. The Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, is one of the largest health care institutions in India dedicated to providing quality medical education and health care, especially to the poor, the disadvantaged and the disenfranchised. Founded as a one-bed clinic in 1900, today CMC now employs over 4300 people, and is widely acknowledged to be one of th...   (read article)

14 November 2007. In the state of Washington, The Swedish TeleStroke Program is part of an integrated effort to improve stroke diagnosis and treatment throughout state. It is modeled after the country’s first and leading program at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a founding member of the Partners HealthCare System in Boston.

Since 2003, doctors with the Partners T...   (read article)

Posted 19 November 2007. In Rotterdam, The Netherlands, the merger of Sint Clara Hospital and Zuiderziekenhuis in 2002 created Medical Center Rijnland-Zuid (MCRZ), a general hospital with 679 beds spread over two locations  Location Zuider focuses on acute care, location Clara on elective care. The MCRZ task is to focus on the general care of patients in the region of Rijn...   (read article)

Posted 1 October 2007. The non-profit organization World Internet Resources for Education and Development (WiRED International) was forced to suspended its telemedicine program with Iraq when the U.S Department of State abruptly withdrew its funding in September 2006. The WiRED organisation had trouble finding private contributors to keep the project running after the initial f...   (read article)

3 September 2007. Australia`s Academic and Research Network (AARNet) has assisted in providing a live, two-way digital videoconferencing connection between Korea University Hospital in Seoul, Korea and seven other hospitals in Australia, China, Japan, Singapore, Philippines, India and and France.

The system allowed participating hospitals to view the laparoscopic (keyh...   (read article)

Posted 16 July 2007. Some doctors have found a way to use a videoconferencing robot to check on patients while they’re miles from the hospital. One robot is at Baltimore’s Sinai Hospital. Outfitted with cameras, a screen and microphone, the joystick-controlled robot is guided into the rooms of Dr. Alex Gandsas’ patients where he speaks to them as if he were right there.

9 November 2006. Posted 5 March 2007. Birmingham is to get a Super Hospital, the first new general hospital built in the UK’s second city in 70 years. The new University Hospital in Birmingham (UHB) will cost £553 illion.The UHB development will include a new acute hospital with 1,213 beds, a 108-bed specialist psychiatric hospital and teaching facility and a sep...   (read article)

5 March 2007. CIRM - Consorzio Italiano per la Ricerca in Medicina – is a Consortium specializing in  medical research. CIRM promotes and coordinates technological projects at the national  level with multiple networks active in the health and social service sectors. At the international level, CIRM acts as technological partner for the developed countries and promote...   (read article)

26 August 2006. The Military Institute of the Health Services in Poland has progressively become a centre of excellence in many areas of medicine and has proved pivotal in the development of Polish medicine. It was founded as a Military Hospital in 1945,

Thanks to its role as a scientific research institute and as a centre of postgraduate education, the institute has a...   (read article)

16 February 2007. In Wales, Health Minister Dr Brian Gibbons has welcomed a report to the Prime Minister on the mutual benefits of health links with developing countries.

Lord Crisp's report recommends that the UK Government should provide grant aid towards the costs of health links with the Ministry responsible for health in the participating developing country &n...   (read article)

Posted 27 November 2006. Sony showcased its latest High Definition (HD) visual communication system at MEDICA 2006, the world’s largest medical fair at Duesseldorf, Germany between 15 and 18 November 2006. Some of the medical visistors were truly amazed at the picture quality.

They recognised that the new Sony High devinition Video system PCS-HG90 could provide surgeon...   (read article)

6 September 2006. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the largest Trust in the UK and the biggest teaching hospital in Europe. This adds significance when we learn the Trust is implementing a pioneering clinical information system from Bluespier International that will improve clinical audit and decision support and ultimately, patient care.

After winning the contrac...   (read article)

May 2005 posted 11 September 2006. When St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim, Norway was rebuilt the opportunity arose to incorporate leading edge video technology. St. Olavs hospital is being virtually rebuilt, with over 80% of current buildings being demolished and replaced by new facilities.

Co-operation agreements were sigened with Sony Siemens and Olympus tosecure the h...   (read article)