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Articles about telemedicine (0-33 of 33)
- Video Conferencing, The Cutting Edge Of Communication
By: Pankaj SNV | - A video conference is a set of interactive telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously. It has also been called 'visual collaboration' and is a type of groupware. It differs from a videophone call in that it is designed to serve a conference rather than individuals. Videoconferencing uses telecommunications of audio and video to bring people at different sites together for a meeting. This can be as simple a ...
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- Health Informatics Specialists Are Essential To Reform And Transform Our Health System
By: Peter Yellowlees | - Much of the American health system is outdated, inefficient and excessively expensive. Many have written about what is wrong with our system, and how important is the process of health reform. But relatively little has been written about what is required to improve the care of all Americans, and how we are to arrive at comprehensive solutions that both disrupt our current system of care, and replace it with improved approaches. One thing we can be certain about is that any changes that we make w ...
Tags: health informatics, health reform, health transformation, telemedicine, doctor
- Jobs In Health Informatics Are Becoming Plentiful
By: Peter Yellowlees | - The way most doctors and health care professionals do their jobs has hardly changed over the past thirty to forty years. Contrast this with the enormous changes in, say, transport, manufacturing and telecommunications!
But hang on to your stethoscopes! Despite the fact that some doctors still have their heads buried firmly in the sand, the winds of change are blowing and most doctors are now using electronic communication technologies, if not enthusiastically, then at least regularl ...
Tags: health informatics, informatics, jobs, doctor, physician, Obama, Obama health policy, Health IT, Health information technology
- Retail Futures - Top 10 Medical Device Technology
By: bharat book bureau | - Retail Futures - Top 10 Medical Device Technology Report ( http://www.bharatbook.com/Market-Research-Reports/Top-10-Medical-Device-Technology.html ) identifies the sectors with the industrys most important developments related to patient care, clinical outcomes, and new product development. While the scope of the report is limited to the top ten technologies only, it covers almost the entire medical device market. Scientific and medical technology breakthroughs such as minimally invasi ...
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- Application Of Telemedicine For Gestational Diabetese
By: Kavita Vashisht | - Gestational diabetic is a special case of diabetes occurring for short duration during the later stages of pregnancy. Its onset it usually from 28th week of pregnancy and lasts till the child birth.
Pregnant women who did not have diabetes before the pregnancy but who have excess high blood sugar (glucose) levels during the later stage of pregnancy are said to have gestational diabetes.
In US, Gestational diabetes is supposed to affect 4% of all pregnant women. More than 125,000 case ...
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- Dermatology Through The Net
By: Sterre Lauridsen | - Dermatology is a branch of medicine that deals with the skin and its diseases. This branch of medicine is comprised of several subspecialties. These subspecialties include cosmetic dermatology, which is considered the widest and most popular form of dermatology. It also involves dermatopathology (which specializes in the pathology of the skin), immunodermatology (which specializes in the treatment of immune mediated skin diseases), and most especially moh's surgery (which focuses n the excision ...
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- Who Benefits From Online Health Care And Virtual Clinics?
By: Sam Prochazka | - I recently heard a health care policy maker say that, "The Western World is drowning in health care costs." He's right: according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the burden of US healthcare costs rose by 9.9% in 2008 and is forcast to rise 9.2% and 9.0% in 2009 and 2010, respectively. The story is similar in a single-payer system, like that in Canada, where 17% of the government's entire annual revenue is spent on health care.
Interestingly, the Canadian government pays for about 70% o ...
Tags: Telemedicine, occupational, physical, therapy, rehabilitation, Internet
- Online Medicine - The Doctor Is In
By: Katt Mollar | - Technology has changed our lives drastically over the past 20 years. Just about everything can be done online these days from shopping, dating and working to even consulting a doctor thousands of miles away.
One of the fastest growing online medical Internet platforms is Myca which allows doctor-patient consultation remotely, by phone, email, instant messaging or even videoconferencing. It also enables patients to schedule doctor's appointments online. Myca is barely two years old ...
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- Telemedicine Is An Essential Component Of Healthcare Reform
By: Peter Yellowlees | - It is clear that most stakeholders in the health industry now support President Obama's view that it is essential that we have substantial healthcare reform, and soon. The arguments around the issue are not whether this should happen, but how and when it will occur. An excellent white paper has just been written on how national telemedicine initiatives are essential to that reform. The whole paper, primarily authored by Rashid Bashshur PhD and Gary Shannon PhD, is available for free download at ...
Tags: telemedicine, obama, healthcare, healthcare reform, electronic medical records
- Research And Development In High Definition
By: Aydan Corkern | - High Definition television is known also by the phrase advanced television, extended-definition television, and improved-definition television. High definition television involves an improved television viewing system with at least double the horizontal and vertical resolution, a much wider aspect ratio, and superior audio, especially when compared to the current television broadcast standards.
Because high definition televisions have about twice as many scan lines as current tele ...
Tags: HD, HDTV, theater, cinema, movies, television, video, audio, quality, high definition, digital
- Rowan Gibson Shares His Thoughts On Innovating Healthcare In His Latest Online Column
By: Tug Search | - Rowan Gibson is a global business strategist, a bestselling author and an expert on radical innovation. He is also one of world's most in-demand business speakers. Rowan's books have been translated into over 20 languages. His new book Innovation to the Core (co-authored with Peter Skarzynski) was published in March 2008 by Harvard Business School Press.
Below is Rowan's latest online column looking at innovating our healthcare systems and rethinking and i ...
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- Atm Healthcare? The Way Of The Future?
By: Peter Yellowlees | - Doctors are starting to redesign the way they work to link better with patients and to use the newly available multi-media technologies. This is an important process that will undoubtedly accelerate over the next 20 years. There is a need to substantially redesign many of the traditional processes used to practice medicine - and move to new ways of delivering health services, using what I call ATM Healthcare.
What, then, is ATM Healthcare?
When we think of the term ...
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- Save Time And Money - Go Online And Improve Your Health
By: Peter Yellowlees | - Everyone talks about how expensive healthcare is, yet few people have started to really look at how it could be cheaper for patients. Many of the costs of healthcare are the result of inefficient practices that arise from a system that has not been focused on patients, and has just assumed that patients will travel from one clinic to the next, from one lab to another, and from home to hospital. Most doctors practices and health systems try and save money for themselves, but not for patients, and ...
Tags: health outcome, internet, email, save time, save money, health, healthcare
- Save Time And Money Using The Internet For Healthcare
By: Peter Yellowlees | - Everyone talks about how expensive healthcare is, yet few people have started to really look at how it could be cheaper for patients. Many of the costs of healthcare are the result of inefficient practices that arise from a system that has not been focused on patients, and has just assumed that patients will travel from one clinic to the next, from one lab to another, and from home to hospital. Most doctors practices and health systems try and save money for themselves, but not for patients, and ...
Tags: health information, save money, save time, healthcare, email, telemedicine, e-prescribing, information age, information age health. Doctor. Patient
- 10 Questions To Check Out Your Doctor
By: Peter Yellowlees | - Most people don't check on the level of competence of their doctor. Instead they typically see someone through a referral or recommendation from a friend, colleague, or often from another doctor who is suggesting a specialist referral. Or they are frequently given a list of "accredited providers" by an insurer. Sometimes they go on the internet and do some investigations - after all most doctors now have websites or at least have some information available about them on the web, but how much? An ...
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- Thailand's Medical Tourism Industry - Popular Treatments And Patient Origins
By: Gregory Smyth | - Medical tourism in Thailand is a hot industry. There are so many natural positives for the country as a medical tourism destination, that the Thai government has set up a special body to help market their hospitals internationally. Thailand has the advantages of English being widely spoken in both the community at large, as well as in hospitals; of many of their doctors being overseas trained; having a well-established tourism industry that is completely separate from medicine; and most importan ...
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- 7 Reasons To Support President Obama's Initiative On Electronic Health Records
By: Peter Yellowlees | - A central component of President Obama's health policy is investment in electronic health records so all medical records are digitized within five years. This will include plans to strengthen the security and privacy governance arrangements for health information currently in place, ensure that health information cannot be sold or passed on without patient consent, and increase the range of penalties for those who do not protect health data appropriately. Many are already calling for serious rec ...
Tags: President Obama, electronic health records, information age, privacy, internet, health information
- Video Conferencing - The New Face Of Meetings
By: Samantha Sam | - The general uses for the Video conferencing include meetings of businesses, formation or educational instruction and collaboration between agents of Health or other representatives. Up to now the visual communication was employed in the telemedicine, telenursing like the diagnosis, the consultation, the transmission of the medical images, etc, telecommunication, education as it provides to the student the occasion to learn the student by the practice in a bidirectional platform from communicatio ...
Tags: Video conferencing, video conference, video conferencing system, video conferencing product
- Bsnl Broadband
By: Milind Deshmukh | - BSNL is on the way of commissioning of a multi-gigabit, multi-protocol, a world class, convergent IP infrastructure with the help of national internet backbone, which will offer convergent services through the broadband access network. This BSNL broadband service can be available on DSK technology.
BSNL broadband is one of the best broadband services of BSNL. This service is being offered on existing copper wire infrastructure. This service is known as the best technology, which p ...
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- Online Doctor Search - An Inventive Approach
By: kev | - In this computer age, the internet provides an amazing wealth of information pertaining to every subject under the sun. It is understood that ten years ago, only 20% of physicians/doctors availed internet facilities while today the numbers have multiplied manifold. The internet has a host of websites and online directories to help identify medicine as well as doctors. Web MD and 1866doctor.com are widely used physicians' directories and sites like LocateADoc have detailed listings of doctors and ...
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- Physician Answering Services
By: Arun Shah | - If we go back few years, there wasn't any concept of emergency call centers, healthcare call centers and even physician answering service. They have recently popped up mainly due to the upcoming health hazard and risk of life. Same can be said for physician answering services, as this virtual call center is very new to the world and also to the medical arena. The main aim of the physician answering service is to bridge the gap between the doctor and the patient. Means at any point of time o ...
Tags: health care customer service, medical outsourcing services, medical service providers, home health care service, emergency call centers, medical call
- Health Care Answering Service
By: Arun Shah | - Imagine a situation in which your loved one is extremely unwell and at the same time you have very busy work schedule which cannot be missed. It's surely a difficult choice to make. You do not want to leave alone your loved one in such a situation and at the same time you cannot let go your work. In such difficult situations that family health call centers prove to be extremely helpful. You can find about the patients latest reports and progress by calling on the medical response answering ...
Tags: health and safety call center, health call centers, medical call centers, emergency call centers, medical answering service, Health care Answering Ser
- Medical Outsourcing Services Are Going Global
By: Nicholas Koutrakos | - The outsourcing of medical services enables patients to get the best medical attention from specialised doctors. State and federal legislations ensure that the doctors providing these medical outsourcing services have been properly trained and licensed. Without proper documentation and permission, the doctors are not allowed to render medical outsourcing services. This has been touted as the most promising yet contentious area of outsourcing. The services that can be outsourced could be anything ...
Tags: Hospital Call Centers, Health Call Centers, medical call centers, doctor on call, health care call centers, health care answering service
- Internet Tax Issues Continue
By: Jon Norwood | - Over the years the growth of society has been marked by the increase and dissemination of new knowledge. This would make the single most important resource in the world information. Information is the currency of the United States and the power of the Internet. Knowledge once locked away in books has now been made available to anyone with a computer and Internet access. Now Congress is asking if citizens of the United States should pay taxes to the government for the privilege of access the ...
Tags: Internet Tax, Cable Internet, John Edwards, Internet Access, The Internet Tax Freedom Act
- Rape Truama Stress Disorder: A Primer
By: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes | - Studies show that 97% of rape survivors will experience PTSD. Almost 50% of survivors still meet the criteria for PTSD even three months after the rape. Nearly 1/3 of people with addictions have been raped. For many people, alcohol and drugs helps them sleep and numb the memories of the rape. So while many people can heal and move forward, a large percentage of survivors simply cannot. We all know that rape is not about sex. It is about power, control, and intimidation. Rape is a violent crime w ...
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- What Is Video Conferencing ?
By: Bushra Bashir | - What is video conferencing?
Video conferencing is a communication technology that integrates voice and video to connect the remote users with each other via internet as they are in the same room. Each user needs a computer, microphone, web cam and a broadband internet connection for participating in the video conferencing. Users at both the ends see and hear each other in real time allowing natural conversation. Many communication companies have been dabbling in video c ...
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- Virtual Medical Call Centers
By: Nicholas Koutrakos | - Medical call center is a product of modern technological advancement. Few years down the line, getting treatment or receiving medical advices on phone or over the internet was unimaginable. Today, medical answering service, doctor on call, physician answering service is a reality. Thanks to the emergence of medical call center.
A medical center offers a gamut of services ranging from fielding emergency medical calls, fixing schedules, making appointments, offering medical advice, dispensi ...
Tags: virtual medical call center, hospital call center, medical answering service, physician answering service, doctor on call
- Telephone Answering Services
By: Jeffrey Toewe | - The medical and health care industry is growing very fast, which requires constant updated services too. Nowadays, phone answering services have been diversified and are very much involved in medical response answering service. Medical answering services take calls on behalf of the clients and deliver their messages. Call4health.com is a phone answering service that provides complete professional medical response answering service that ensures prompt medical assistance to the patients even if th ...
Tags: Hospital Call Centers, Family Health and Safety Call Centers, Health Call Centers
- Outsource Call Center
By: Jeffrey Toewe | - Just a phone call away, you have heard people saying this quite frequently. With the development of the BPOs and the call centre industry, all the information related to any of your queries is now just a phone call away. Today we have in-house call centre in most of the multi national corporations. We also have companies that outsource it to the leading BPOs in order to reach to the masses. This enables the users to use the services round the clock.
The outsource call ...
Tags: doctor on call, health call centers, emergency call center, home health care services
- Health Care Answering Services
By: Jeffrey Toewe | - Imagine a situation in which your loved one is extremely unwell and at the same time you have very busy work schedule which cannot be missed. Its surely a difficult choice to make. You do not want to leave alone your loved one in such a situation and at the same time you cannot let go your work. In such difficult situations that family health call centers prove to be extremely helpful. You can find about the patients latest reports and progress by calling on the medical response answering ser ...
Tags: medical answering services, physician answering services, doctor on call, health call centers, emergency call center, home health care services,
- Doctor On Call
By: Jeffrey Toewe | - Worldwide, people living in rural and remote areas struggle to access timely, quality specialty medical care. Residents of these areas often have substandard access to specialty health care, primarily because specialist physicians are more likely to be located in areas of concentrated population. Communication for healthcare services via call system offers many advantages. This interactive consultation is typically from an urban-to-rural location. It means that the patient does not have to trave ...
Tags: Telemedicine Medical, Call Centres, Outsourcing Medical Service Providers, Electronic Medical Record Software, Virtual Call Centre, Doctor on Call
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