31 March 2008. AV Corporation (AVC), a subsidiary  of PCH Holdings Limited  in Sri lanka (formerly ceylon) has entered into a strategic partnership with Aethra Spa of Ancona, Italy.   AV Corporation will sell Aethra Audio & Video conferencing and Networking products in Sri Lanka. Aethra Inc. that has been in business for 35 years and offers innovative au...   (read article)

31 March 2008. Apollo Hospitals Group is a pioneer in the field of Telemedicine in India and is credited with being the first to set up a Rural Telemedicine Centre in the village of Aragonda in the state of Andhra Pradesh.  More than 45,000 telemedicine consultations were carried out at Apollo Hospitals Chennai during the last eight years and many, many more at other locat...   (read article)

24 March 2008. Jon Linkous, executive director of the American Telemedicine Association observed last week that providing psychiatric services to people who otherwise wouldn’t have access to them is just one example of how telemedicine is being used in health care. Here are two examples.

(1) Across Washington State, videoconferencing has been used to provide child psych...   (read article)

14 March 2008. The Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation (ATNF) is the largest and oldest multi- specialty Telemedicine network in India, with 103 sites (including 9 located overseas). It has overseen more than 36,000 teleconsultations during the last 7 years. Apollo Hospitals is the third largest health care group in the world.

Property developers, Mantri Deve...   (read article)

6 November 2007. RigNet, Inc.and the telemedicine veterans of NuPhysicia LLC,  have launching RigNet Medical , a service developed to address the communications challenges faced by oil and gas companies offshore or in remote locations.

The distance-medicine service, RigNet Medical, gives the oil and gas industry the opportunity to better control health-care co...   (read article)

12 November 2007.  In Nigeria, with the help of  the Nigerian telemedicine project team and AMD Telemdicine equipment, many people who ordinarily would not be able to receive medical care, will now be able to be seen by a specialist who can address their specific needs with the most current treatment for their conditions.

Nigeria's telemedicine project i...   (read article)

9 November 2007. GSAHS -  The Greater Southern Area Health Service (GSAHS) - serves a mainly rural population of 468,000 persons in the southern part of News South Wales.

A new videoconferencing network developed by the New South Wales Government Greater for the Southern Area Health Service (GSAHS) is connecting mental health patients in small hospitals to speciali...   (read article)

31 October 2007. Cisco® and Satyam Computer Services Limited (Satyam) are collaborating to explore a new venture. This planned new venture will focus on optimising, deploying and managing integrated healthcare management solutions globally, bringing together the market reach, capabilities and experience of both Cisco and Satyam.

The announcement was made by John Chambe...   (read article)

1 November 2007. In Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania,Trauma patients receiving care at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, Pottsville (a a 159-bed acute care hospital), may be treated by physicians at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, 50 miles away using telemedicine.

“Telemedicine expands the level of care provided in rural, community hospitals like Good Samaritan...   (read article)

01 October 2007. In the United States, Acting Agriculture Secretary, Mr. Conner has announced the selection of 78 grant recipients for Distance Learning and Telemedicine grants totaling $22.3 million in 31 states.

"These grants connect rural communities to educational programs and medical services that bridge the miles between doctors and patients and provide classroom...   (read article)