How do carbohydrates impact your health? - Richard J. Wood

The things we eat and drink on a daily basis can impact our health in big ways. Too many carbohydrates, for instance, can lead to insulin resistance, which is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease and Type 2 Diabetes. But what are carbs, exactly? And what do they do to our bodies? Richard J. Wood explains.

BT Connected Care: Telecare and Telehealth

Dave Tyas, Proposition & Strategy Lead for Telehealth at BT Global Services, shows how BT telehealth and telecare services are helping people manage their health better by using today’s technologies in their own homes.

Cars That Can Monitor a Driver's Health Wall Street Journal

What the car of the near future will sense about your biology. Auto makers are researching technology that could feed your heart rate, blood pressure and other biometric responses into the car's computers, the better to determine when you're drowsy or overwhelmed with distracting media. MIT researcher Bryan Reimer and WSJ's Joe White has details on Lunch Break.

ITU WORKSHOPS: "e-Health service in low-resource setting", Tokyo, Japan

ITU workshop on "e-Health service in low-resource setting: Requirements and ITU role" and ITU-T Fourth meeting of FG-DR & NRR, Tokyo, Japan, 4 - 8 February 2013.

Wellness Conversation 3/29/14 - Mental Health Impact on Employers

Matt Schwartz, Chair of Mayor's Healthy Hometown Worksite Wellness Committee talks with Randy Schrodt, Integrative Psychiatrist about the impact of mental health on employers.

Wellness Conversation 2/18/2016 - Telehealth

Matt Schwartz, Chair of Mayor's Healthy Hometown Worksite Wellness Committee, talks with Sharon Boost, On Life Health, about Telehealth. Accessing care virtually.

Adam Darkins: International Congress on Telehealth and Telecare 2012

Interviewed at our International Congress on Telehealth and Telecare 2012, Adam Darkins gave an international perspective on telehealth, explaining how The Department of Veterans Affairs had engaged clinicians and turned its vision into reality for 72,000 veterans currently being supported at home through telemedicine.

Telecare - the ethical debate

Telecare - the ethical debate
Telecare offers potential benefits for individual users, including safety and independence. However telecare also has the potential to threaten individual users' privacy, autonomy and control. 
Social care and health professionals need to consider a range of ethical issues when supporting an individual in deciding whether to use telecare. These issues need to be considered not only before but also during and after the installation of a telecare service.

Telecare Part 3

Part 3 of a film about the ways in which telecare can support carers and their families.

Telecare Part 2

Part 2 of a film about how telecare can support carers and their families

Telecare Part 1

Part 1 of a film about how telecare can support carers and their families

What is Telecare?

Telecare in Scotland Part 1

A demonstration of some of the Telecare equipment available and in use in Scotland.

Mediserve Telemedicine News Release

Mediserve Telemedicine news release

Telemedicine - Ses@m Tromsø

Electronically connecting primary and secondary health services. Telemedicine project in the municipality of Tromsø, Northern Norway, 2007.

Tromsø Telemedicine Laboratory (TTL)

An animation about Tromsø Telemedicine Laboratory, a Centre for Research-based Innovation (SFI) in Tromsø, Norway.

eHealth and Telemedicine in Denmark.wmv

For the CATEL "Carrefour de la Télésanté 2012", on the central theme "Economics of e-health, current issues in France", a 14 minute presentation was sent to be shown at the conference. The presentation focus on eHealth and Telemedicine in Denmark including incentive structures. The presentation in particular focus on the Region of Southern Denmark. 
Presenters: 
Christina E. Wanscher, Specialist Consultant, Southern Denmark Health Innovation and Anne-Kirstine Dyrvig, PhD-student, OUH Odense University Hospital.

Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine

Nils Kolstrup, GP, MD,MPH, PhD, Senior Researcher, Senior advisor (NST)

Connected care: When and where you need it | Kristi Henderson | TEDxJackson

Telehealth has the power to solve some of the most difficult problems in health care. Mississippi's limited resources and rural population created an opportunity for leadership in telehealth and the results have shown decreased cost and improved health outcomes. 

Dr. Kristi Henderson is the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s chief advanced practice officer and director of the Center’s telehealth program. Henderson spearheaded UMMC’s statewide TelEmergency program, which connects 14 rural hospitals to emergency physicians via a telemedicine system. She maintains her clinical practice as a family and acute care nurse practitioner within the UMMC department of emergency medicine and also serves as an associate professor in the School of Nursing.

TEDxMonga - Ting Shih 石亭芝 - Telemedicine for the world

After winning a business-plan competition at MIT, Ting Shih launched a venture with the objective of serving one billion customers. She now provides healthcare solutions to under-served communities as far apart as Botswana, Bangladesh and ...... the USA. With help from gapminder bubbles and an iphone, Ting shares some surprising insights into how doctors worldwide are helping new patients in new ways.

TEDxBigApple - Aydogan Ozcan - Microscopy on a Cellphone: An Emerging Telemedicine Platform

Aydogan Ozcan explains how his innovative research in imaging techniques has enabled the use of our cellphones as microscopes, a powerful and disruptive idea for bringing cost effective microscopy and micro-analysis to remote and developing countries.

Aydogan Ozcan is Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA and is the recipient of numerous awards including NIH Director's New Innovator Award 2009 and MIT's TR35 Award 2009. His lab works on fundamentally new imaging architectures that can compensate for the lack of complexity of optical components by use of novel theories.

The shocking truth about your health | Lissa Rankin | TEDxFiDiWomen

Lissa Rankin, MD is an OB/GYN physician, author, keynote speaker, consultant to health care visionaries, professional artist, and founder of the women's health and wellness community OwningPink.com. Discouraged by the broken, patriarchal health care system, she left her medical practice in 2007 only to realize that you can quit your job, but you can't quit your calling. This epiphany launched her on a journey of discovery that led her to become a leader in the field of mind/body medicine, which she blogs about at OwningPink.com and is writing about in her third book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself (Hay House, 2013).

She teaches both patients and health care professionals how to make the body ripe for miracles by healing the mind and being healthy in all aspects of life, not just by promoting healthy behaviors like good nutrition, exercise, and adequate sleep, but by encouraging health and authenticity in relationships, work, creative expression, spirituality, sexuality, finances, and living environment. She is leading a revolution to feminize how health care is received and delivered by encouraging collaboration, fostering self-healing, reconnecting health care and spirituality, empowering patients to tap into the mind's power to heal the body, and encouraging women not to settle for being merely well, but to strive for living vital, joyful, authentic lives full of "mojo."

An opportunity to improve wellness, prevention, quality of life: Fred Ferguson at TEDxSBU

Healthcare is chronically ill and the major symptom is escalating costs. Reactive health care cannot address the common chronic health problems that are predictable via lifestyles, habits and common situations challenging individuals and caregivers. The major players of healthcare: consumers, health providers and payors (i.e. insurances and government) do not share values or goals. Poor oral health is the most prevalent chronic health concern and is impacted by threats transparent to overall health and wellness. Beginning at birth, health promotion can be easily facilitated through oral health literacy. A password-protected, consumer-centered, and transparent healthcare interface tracking oral health assessment and dental examination outcomes data can provide consumer autonomy and confidence and healthcare a method for global health guidance and reduction of costs for care management.

What causes wellness | Sir Harry Burns | TEDxGlasgow

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. How can meaning and purpose contribute to one's wellbeing? Sir Harry Burns explores the concept of salutogenesis and the impact it has on the most disadvantaged members of our community. 

As the former Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Scotland, the Scottish Government’s Principal Medical Adviser and Head of the Scottish Medical Civil Service, Sir Harry is dedicated to improving people’s health and social well being.

In 1994, he became Director of Public Health for Greater Glasgow Health board, a position he occupied until 2005. During this time, he continued research into the problems of social determinants of health, and later in 1998, was lead clinician in Scotland for cancer care.

Next steps in health & medicine -- where can technology take us? | Daniel Kraft | TEDxBerlin

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Daniel Kraft shows us where technology can take us in health and medicine. He pulls out countless gadgets of his jacket that will change the future of health-monitoring and improve our access to personal health care.

Daniel Kraft is Founding Executive Director and curator for Exponential Medicine, an annual program that brings together thought leaders from across technology and healthcare. He is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator. With over 20 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has chaired the Medicine Track for Singularity University since SU’s inception, and founded and is Executive Director of Exponential Medicine, a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare.

The New “Disrupters” in Healthcare – Patients and Pharmacists | Rajiv Shah | TEDxFargo

Dr. Shah is the CEO of MyMeds (www.my-meds.com), a digital health company whose medication adherence platform engages patients, physicians and pharmacists to work together.
Technology is disrupting consumer industries across the globe. In healthcare, technology is being used to improve systems, but the new disruption will be driven by people – patients and pharmacists. Like never before, patients are demanding consumer technologies to help them become more engaged on their changing health care team. The new team brings pharmacists off the bench and puts them in a starring role to help solve one of healthcare’s biggest issues – the $300 billion problem of medication non-adherence (not taking medicines properly).

What healthcare will look like in 2020 | Stephen Klasko | TEDxPhiladelphia

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. How will healthcare change in the future? Dr. Stephen Klasko shares his insights on healthcare reform in this informative talk cleverly staged in the year 2020. As the President and CEO of Thomas Jefferson University and its affiliated Hospital, Dr. Klasko manages enormous change – both in health care and in the business of running a major college and hospital. His work focuses on merging the two, finding ways to expand medicine into the community in innovative ways.

Dr. Stephen Klasko is the President and CEO of Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health System. Jefferson is the largest freestanding academic medical center in Philadelphia, with over 12,000 employees and 3,700 students. 

What if you could see your doctor without going to the doctor? | Justin Kahn | TEDxSaltLakeCity

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Technology is transforming every facet of our lives, but Justin would argue that healthcare is a little behind the times in this regard. In his talk, he offers viewers stories of healthcare being offered across oceans through new technological means and how it's changing lives.

An entrepreneur at heart, Justin has a knack for recognizing a need, creating innovative solutions and rallying a team of people who share a similar vision around the cause. He has been the driving force of TruClinic since it was merely a concept, and has successfully guided the company from development, to pilot, to rollout and scale. His goal for the company is pretty simple: make telemedicine available to everyone. Justin is passionate about social entrepreneurship and the belief that a company can provide for the social good while still having an economically successful business. He views TruClinic as an opportunity to impact the world in a positive way by making healthcare more accessible, and that is what gets him out of bed in the morning. He has been recognized for his work with TruClinic by Utah Business Magazine’s 40 Under 40 list in 2011 and was also nominated as a HIMSS H.I.T. Game Changer for the Innovators, Up and Coming category in 2014.

RealTime Clinic - Telemedicine Startup

RealTime Clinic gives healthcare providers the freedom to practice telemedicine without signing contracts, long-term agreements, or joining private provider networks. The platform is further supported by integrated APIs for 360° medical care (i.e. ePrescribing, billing, patient EHR, scheduling).

Participants in Technical Consultation on Telemedicine Tour Pyongyang

The participants in WHO South-East Asia Regional Technical Consultation on Telemedicine visited the Breast Tumour Institute of the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital here on Friday. They looked round various places of the institute, a modern medical service center for women. They also visited the Tower of the Juche Idea, Arch of Triumph, etc.

Mobile Medical Clinics

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What is an outreach program?

Odulair manages outreach programs with governments and local authorities as well NGOs. With representation in North America, Latin America, South America, and most African countries, Odulair is the leading provider of Mobile Medical Units for health Outreach international and domestic, with unparalleled mobile health facilities in turnkey solutions.

Odulair develops efficient programs to deliver access to primary health care through medical outreach programs and community outreach, in urban to large rural clinics that can range from fully equipped and ready to go 4*4 mobile dental clinics, mobile eye clinic, mobile health van, mobile health clinics, mobile health vehicles, mobile medical units, to 53 ft mobile medical trailers to a complete mobile hospital on wheels. 

Odulair partners with African Doctors, African Hospitals and USA Doctors, Church Outreach Programs, Community Outreach Programs, providing facilities, training, and medical teams for the improvement of African Health. Mobile Clinics in Nigeria, Mobile Clinics in South Africa, Mobile Clinics in Kenya, Mobile Clinics in Mozambique, Mobile Clinics in Ghana, Mobile Clinics in Africa, Mobile Clinics in the USA, Mobile Clinics in California, Mobile Clinics in New York, Mobile Clinics in Ohio, Mobile Clinics in Atlanta, Mobile Clinics in Orlando, FL, Mobile Clinics in Seattle, Mobile Clinics in Brazil, Mobile Clinics in Mexico, Mobile Clinics in Alaska, Mobile Clinics in Norway, Mobile Clinics in Canada, Mobile Clinics in UK, Mobile Clinics in Australia. Mobile Medical Trailer Manufacturer, Mobile Health Clinic Manufacturer, Mobile Health Van Manufacturer.

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LATIN (Latin American Telemedicine Infarct Network)

LATIN busca salvar vidas.

Online patient access to their medical record

This film shows how patients online secure access to their GP record can help both the patients and the practice. It includes interviews with a GP designer of the PAERS/EMIS system as well as patients, a practice manager and GPs.

Telemedicine at the Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Germany

International Medical Services (IMS) proudly presents its new video. It will guide you through all the stages of a teleconsultation process at the University Medical Center Freiburg.
We have been offering telemedical services since 2009. Our specialists are available for:
- teleradiology
- teleconsultations
- „second opinion"

Swedish TeleHealth Program

Sherene Schlegel, director of the Swedish TeleHealth program provides an overview of the inception and growth of the program. Patrice Ruhl, RN describes how the telepresenter interacts with the patient and remote physician. Dr. Jose Gude, a Swedish Hospitalist shares how TeleHealth improves access to specialists and improves patient outcomes. Chip Begosian, Commissioner, Island Hospital describes his experience as a patient in the TeleStroke program.

MyCare - HomeCare - Tele-health Solution

MyCare Tele- Health Solution - Napier HealthCare

Telehealthcare - Tour of the Home

A tour of the many uses and product for telehealthcare.

TELEHEALTH: THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE

On 28 February 2013, IEMML coordinated telehealth consultations between a specialist medical service, a GP and a residential aged care facility. Four telehealth consultations were held involving both private and transitional care patients at Uniting Aged Care Strathdon.

Telemedicine: the future for the NHS?

Telemedicine has caught the eye of UK policy makers as they seek to cope with an enormous rise in demand on the National Health Service whose budgets are constrained. Sarah Neville, the FT’s public policy editor, reports on whether telemedicine could be the future for the NHS.

Tempus Pro: A portable telemedicine device

A robust portable device for monitoring vital signs and providing communications for medics, developed with the support of ESA, offers a lifeline even in the remotest areas on Earth via satcoms. 

The Tempus Pro combines the diagnostic facilities found in standard hospital vital signs monitors with extensive two-­way communications, packaged in a compact, robust, highly portable unit that can be tailored to user needs.

The unit has been developed by Remote Diagnostic Technologies (RDT) in the UK, with funding from ESA's Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems programme.

Harnessing telemedicine for suicide prevention: a clinical trial

Over 40,000 individuals in the United States will take their own life each year. There are many challenges associated with delivering therapy to people who are at risk of suicide due to the cost and availability of regular care. MindMe is a mobile application that uses state-of-the-art technology to deliver therapy when people need it most. We are seeking funding to develop MindMe for a large-scale clinical trial. Our goal is to demonstrate that MindMe can prevent suicide in at-risk populations.

VSee Telemedicine for Shell Nigeria

VSee telemedicine is making a difference in Nigeria. The team deployed telemedicine kits for two Shell Nigeria offshore platforms, allowing workers to receive health care from US specialist doctors. It also trained doctors and health care workers at two hospitals, including the Obio Cottage community hospital to do real-time telemedicine consultations to increase the quality of local medical care.

The Journey of Clinical Trials

EFPIA Director General Richard Bergström

The Value Proposition for mHealth in Clinical Trials

Julian Jenkins, vice president of project planning and management at GlaxoSmithKline, is the head of the company’s digital platform performance unit. GSK is consolidating all of its efforts in the digital clinical space into one group so it can coordinate across the business, run it in a more effective way and then hopefully adopt new digital methodology in its clinical trials.

mHealth in Clinical Trials: Instrumenting the Patient with Sensors, Wearables & Apps

By providing study volunteers with mHealth devices, including smartphones and wearable technology, trials can access virtually unlimited real world data yielding myriad benefits, both for industry and us all. The technology is ready now.

Sensors, Wearables & Apps in Clinical Trials: NY BIO conference

Highlights from NY BIO panel entitled, "Instrumenting Patients with Sensors, Wearables and Apps: The Road Ahead". Learn about the current opportunities and challenges with introducing mHealth technology into clinical trials

What is Patient Engagement?

Leading Reach is the first web based platform that allows all healthcare providers to score patient engagement and manage their referral network from a single application. Our Four Core Metrics of patient engagement allow you to set benchmarks and track progress in order to achieve bottom line goals of driving more revenue, saving valuable staff time, eliminating costs and most importantly creating happier, healthier patients. 

Pre Appointment Info
Increase revenue and save valuable staff time by engaging and preparing patients for appointments with branded emails containing time and date of appointment, driving directions, new patient forms or links to web based portals, provider bios, facility info, patient testimonials, and consent forms. 

Patient Education
Create a better patient experience and increase likelihood of patient-to-patient referrals by delivering relevant educational content to patients after appointments. Educational materials can include everything from links to condition specific videos, diagnosis information, treatment options, pre and post op instructions, FAQ, and much more. 

Patient Satisfaction & Social Media
Simple to use digital satisfaction surveys make it easy to deliver and collect valuable patient satisfaction data in a timely manner. Leading Reach also facilitates Yelp reviews, Facebook likes, Twitter follows, Health Grades reviews, and other social media responses from your patients. 

Referral Management
Leading Reach is a comprehensive referral management system that enables healthcare providers to manage incoming and outgoing patient referrals with real time data reporting. In a couple clicks, patients receive the information they need at point of referral and both the referring and referred to provider are sent real time notifications for scheduling next steps in the patient process.

Patient Activation Measures

This video was produced in November 2010. Judith H. Hibbard, Professor of Health Policy, University of Oregon, talks to Jocelyn Cornwell, Director, The Point of Care Programme, about patient activation and measuring activation levels at The King's Fund Annual Conference 2010.

IRAN - Telemedicine

Technology has changed our everyday lives. Usually people in deprived areas are the last targets for high-Tech companies and their mind boggling gadgets. 
Barakat foundation in Iran has changed all that by creating one of the most advanced and biggest tele-medicine projects in the middle east and maybe the world. 
Now people that once couldn't afford a doctor have access to medical doctors more than a thousand km from where they live.

Edith Shippers, Dutch Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, invites you to eHealth Week 2016

Edith Shippers, Dutch Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, invites you to eHealth Week 2016

eHealth Week 2016 - Save the Date

eHealth Week 2015 attracted over 1,300 international delegates and over 80 exhibitors: global decision makers from public and private healthcare sectors, as well as clinicians, hospital and IT managers and VIP guests. The event took place during the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and comprised two main events: the High Level eHealth Conference organised by the Latvian Ministry of Health and the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and WoHIT (World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition) organised by HIMSS Europe. 
Save the date for next year’s eHealth Week edition, on 8-10 June in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

This Month in Telemedicine - January 2016

American Telemedicine Assocation CEO Jonathan Linkous sums up the most pressing industry news and Chief Policy Officer Gary Capistrant tackles telehealth policy topics in January's edition of TMIT.

Safe Helpline App Wins Award for Innovation in Telemedicine

The DoD Safe Helpline app is the recipient of the 2013 American Telemedicine Association's (ATA) President's Award for Innovation, which recognizes advances in telemedicine through innovative new technology development. Created by RAINN on behalf of the Department of Defense, the Safe Helpline app is the first-ever sexual assault response mobile app. It's unique features include personalized self-care plans; customizable imagery and relaxation techniques; resources for Active Duty, Guard, Reserve and transitioning Service members; and detailed information about sexual assault effects, prevention and recovery. Download the app from the iTunes and Android store.

Self Care Startup Showcase Oulu | Finland 2014

Health, Bio & Wellness Technology Startup Showcase Oulu | Finland 2014 introduces innovative startups in the fields of Digital Health, Self Care, Bio & Medtech, and Smart Health Services. 

Showcase consists of electronic brochure (in Slideshare), four category videos and a master video with all four in one. In the category videos, these companies are represented:

Digital Health - Spektikor, Mediracer, Trividi
Bio & Medtech - Medanets, HorseGeneTest, Global Innovation Network
Self Care - Valkee, Otometri, Sensorfit
Smart Health Services - Happywise, Medkit Finland, Flowgenius, Laturi Corporation

Telemedicine: The Road to Improved Rural Health Care?

Telemedicine promises to improve access to specialty care for citizens of rural states like South Carolina by bringing the care to the patient. This video profiles three of the many telemedicine programs offered by the Medical University of South Carolina: a telestroke program (REACH MUSC), a maternal fetal telemedicine program, and the Virtual TeleConsult Clinic (VTCC). A school-based pediatric specialty clinic is profiled as part of the VTCC.

eHealth Centers bring quality healthcare to rural areas

Access to primary healthcare is an issue in rural or remote areas in many countries of the world.

eHealth Centers are built in partnerships. They leverage HP expertise and technology to provide quality, affordable primary healthcare services to people living in resource-poor locations around the world. eHealth Center facilities are designed to fit and deploy within a standard shipping container, or are retrofitted to work with a pre-existing clinic, depending on a community's existing infrastructure. They serve communities that often have poor or even no access to basic healthcare services.

Telehealth for Aged Care

We've developed a video to demonstrate the benefits of Telehealth for aged care. 
Thanks to Uniting Aged Care, Strathdon and Australian Unity for helping us illustrate the Telehealth experience.

Managing Chronic Disease at Home with Telehealth

We're bringing together the best minds across CSIRO from health services, computer science, mathematics, statistics and social science, to work with our partners on Australia's first large scale telehealth study.

On The Frontier of Telehealth

Established in 2008 to support its military beneficiaries through the Department of Defense, the National Center for Telehealth & Technology, or T2 as it's commonly known, has developed a range of strategies and tools for tackling psychological issues with telehealth tools. Foreseeing the rise in opportunities for access to a health provider through increase in mobile device usage, and utilizing digital tools to allow health support oceans and continents apart, T2 is pushing forward new strategies for healthcare to benefit not only the military, but everyone else as well.

Example of telehealth Plans

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TeleThoracic Medicine

Telemedicine has emerged as a reliable and effective tool in enhancing overall health-care communication. Dr. Michael Humer and Dr. Bill Nelems are both well-respected thoracic surgeons located in Kelowna, B.C. and work in conjunction with Interior Health to provide services to patients throughout the Southern Interior of B.C. In this video they answer the question, "How do we deliver specialty care to a vast area where many of our patients live in rural communities?"

Telemedicine necessary for Singapore's aging population

http://www.zdnet.com/article/telemedicine-necessary-for-singapores-aging-population/

Telemedicine and remote patient monitoring technologies are necessary, even in a small country like Singapore, to support an aging population and allow patients with chronic diseases to better manage their health.

By 2030, some 30 percent of Singapore's citizens will be part of the aging population, according to Singapore HealthPartners CIO James Woo, who noted that elderly folks are less mobile and face difficulties making regular trips to the polyclinics to receive health care. Telemedicine or remote patient monitoring systems will enable these patients to have tele-consultation with healthcare specialists, eliminating the need to make a trip to the clinic unless necessary, he said.

In an interview with ZDNet Asia, Woo said Singapore's Ministry of Health is taking a serious look into promoting discipline among patients, as part of efforts to encourage them to monitor and maintain their own health. Doing so means they are less likely to end up in a public healthcare institution where bedcrunch is a big issue in the country, he noted.

"How we do this is by getting these patients to take their own blood pressure, sugar readings and heart rate through remote patient monitoring," he said.

The CIO also pointed to the benefits of an electronic medical record (EMR) system which he said would improve patient safety, and provide healthcare providers access to a patient's complete medical history to help in their diganosis and establish the right treatment.

The system will also ensure the same medical records can flow seamlessly between the various healthcare providers, including primary care, acute care and stepdown care, Woo explained.

While the public healthcare sector would unlikely face any barriers, he noted that the private sector could face challenges adopting the EMR system because clinics would need to move their data to a digital platform, which would cost them time and money.

Singapore's health ministry would need to provide incentives for the private sector to overcome this, he said, adding that eventually, the private sector would recognize that the benefits outweigh the cost of getting on the EMR bandwagon. 

About Singapore HealthPartners
Singapore HealthPartners is currently constructing a billion-dollar facility, Connexion at Farrer Park, which is touted to be one of the world's first truly integrated healthcare and hospitality facilities, encompassing a specialist medical center, private hospital and luxury hotel. 

When completed in 2013, the site will include over 230 hotel rooms, 189 medical consultation suites and 11 operating theaters.

Netherland five year plan for eHealth

In our interview with B.E. Bas Van den Dungen, Director General of Curative Care at the Dutch Ministry of Health, he talks us through the current eHealth strategy for The Netherlands, highlighting their three key objectives within the next five years. Van den Dungen highlights that their goals are all patient-centred, and that the current challenge they are facing is to truly “get eHealth in the heart and minds of the people”. eHealth Week 2016, co-organised by the Dutch Ministry of Health, the European Commission and HIMSS Europe, will address these challenges and many more on 8-10 June in Amsterdam – see you there!

European Telemedicine Conference (ETC) 2016

European Telemedicine Conference (ETC) 2016

eHealth European Union activities

Short overview of the European Union activities on eHealth including funded projects demos

E-Health and Telemedicine in Afghanistan

The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) works to build a sustainable health system for Afghanistan at all levels from basic rural healthcare to tertiary level hospital services. Working with partners, e-health and telemedicine are innovative health interventions which can work in the country despite the ongoing security and access problems. Global Health TV visits the French Medical Institute for Children in Kabul to see how AKDN is providing remote training for staff and remote services for patients.

Challenges in global healthcare delivery

Challenges in global healthcare delivery. Consider telemedicine?

How can healthcare be efficient and effective? What challenges does this raise in low and high income countries? 

Leading researchers in health services – Jeffrey Lazarus (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), James Buchan (Queen Margaret University, UK), Anne Sales (University of Michigan, USA) and Jeffrey Hoch (University of Toronto, Canada) – tackle these questions, dealing with the practicalities on the ground as well as health policy and economics. 

For more on challenges in healthcare delivery visit Biome here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/biome/ch...

Biome is BioMed Central's online magazine for research highlights, comment and community news across biology and medicine.

Mobile Telemedicine Vehicle for disasters

Mobile Telemedicine Vehicle for disasters.
Loma Linda University Medical Center now has the capability to provide care in remote locations. This self-contained, four-wheel-drive vehicle has sophisticated diagnostic equipment connecting to LLUMC via satellite for teleconferencing.

Mobile telemedicine example

An interview with Dr. Ranya Habash, CMO of Everbridge. Dr. Habash discusses her use of HipaaBridge to enable telemedicine at her practice. HipaaBridge is used to provide better patient care and increase clinical efficiency.

Telemedicine in a clinical setting

PBS Newshour present a more clinical use of telemedicine.

Video conferencing technology can now connect patients and physicians almost instantaneously, offering convenience, efficiency and savings. But what happens to the doctor-patient relationship if you're never in the same room? Hari Sreenivasan reports.

Telemedicine for the elderly from home.

Telemedicine for the elderly from home.
Learn how an efficient telemedicine program from Philips and Banner Health allows people to receive high-quality health care from the comfort of their own home.

What is telemedicine

Definig telemedicine
Telemedicine is simply medicine provided at a distance. Because there are so many names for the way technology is used in medicine - Telehealth, mHealth, ehealth, telehomecare, among others - GlobalMed prefers to use Connected Health as an umbrella term. This video explains the basics of real-time telemedicine.

Indian Portable Clinic: Union Health Ministry in collaboration with the World Health Organisation are planning to launch Portable Clinics across rural India under the National Rural Health Mission Program.

Dr Robert's E-Health aims to provide virtual wellness and affordable telemedicine to underserved people living in remote areas. 

Introducing the Portable Health Clinic.

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