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From this month, the hospice will offer extra support to more than 30 care homes across Craven and Airedale.

A senior doctor or specialist nurse from the Oxenhope Sue Ryder centre will be available weekdays for telemedicine consultations with care home staff.

"We doctors are not afraid of telematics and Information Technology (IT), on the condition that technology is safe and does not undermine the doctor-patient relationship in any way." This is how MD Frank Ulrich Montgomery, the Vice-president of the Federal Medical Society summarises the results of the survey.

According to a survey the majority of people would prefer to have a good supervision and support in a familiar environment and among their relatives during the last months of their life. This is the case especially for people suffering from incurable diseases such as cancer or a chronic lung disease (COPD). However, in Germany the majority of patients suffering from incurable diseases of this kind pass away at hospitals or at nursing houses; this is because family doctors, nursing services or homecare providers receive too little support for home palliative care, thus not being able to cope with particular situations and crises at home. "This is where the PAALiativ project intervenes to develop support services for homecare for the seriously ill patients," says Dr. Steffen Simon, from the Department of Palliative Care at the King's College in London.

During a ceremony that took place at the Bernburg hospital both the project and the innovative technology were presented to medical staff, representatives of the city, health insurance staff and guests.

Dazu wurde gestern in Berlin eine Kooperationsvereinbarung unterzeichnet. Durch intensivere Zusammenarbeit erhalte der „Masterplan Gesundheitsregion“ von 2007 neuen Schwung, sagte Brandenburgs Gesundheitsstaatssekretär Daniel Rühmkorf. Dabei könne man auf den guten Erfahrungen etwa mit dem Biotechnologie-Verbund Biotop aufbauen. Zum Sprecher des neuen Clusters Gesundheitswirtschaft wurde Günter Stock bestimmt, der Präsident der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

The E-Health system, according to the Minister will facilitate the efficient and prompt delivery of health care without compromising on quality.

The 50,000 dollars project is a three- country Rotary Club initiative to broaden the knowledge base of medical practitioners and allied health professionals.

The project would provide interaction between healthcare providers in rural and resource poor areas where one doctor serves a population of 80,000, with their counterparts in advanced and developed countries, says D. Godfrey Bacheyie, Local Physician and Project Leader.

In a remote corner of Ghana ‘telemedicine’ is proving how effective digital care can be when coverage is extended to those on the medical margins, write Koku Awoonor-William and Ann Aerts

IN LOW and middle-income countries, insufficient access to medical care undermines health outcomes and disadvantages entire generations.

There has been a lot of discussion lately about the Millennium Development Goals and, of course, how we need to push harder to reach them. Technology is an area that is cause-agnostic--from health to education to human rights, technology can be an end in itself, but more often it's a tool to reach a desired end. In that vein, Novartis' Foundation for Sustainable Development has announced that it is partnering with Columbia University's Earth Institute to boost telemedicine in the rural village of Bonsaaso, Ghana, as part of the Ghana Telemedicine Project.

The up-to-date, authoritative information is aimed primarily at health care practitioners and public health providers, enabling their training, continuing education, and delivery of effective treatments to patients

Worldwide revenue for telehealth devices and services is expected to swell to $4.5 billion in 2018, up from $440.6 million in 2013, based on data from an IHS report entitled "World Market for Telehealth – 2014 Edition." The number of patients using telehealth services will rise to 7 million in 2018, up from less than 350,000 in 2013, as presented in the attached figure.

Worldwide revenue for telehealth devices and services is expected to reach $4.5 billion in 2018, up from $440.6 million in 2013, based on data from an IHS report entitled “World Market for Telehealth – 2014 Edition.” The number of patients using telehealth services will rise to 7 million in 2018, up from less than 350,000 in 2013.

Global Telehealth Market 2015-2019 is a new market research publication announced by Reportstack. Telehealth is a medium of communication between patients and doctors.

Due to poor economic conditions in Europe, and uncertainty about healthcare reforms in the US, telehealth device revenues grew by only 5% between 2010 and 2011 – with the number of telehealth patients enrolled worldwide rising 22.2% to 241,200 – and by 18% between 2011 and 2012.

The global telemedicine market, which stood at $14.2 billion in 2012, will have a compound annual growth rate of 18.5 percent through 2018, according to the report.

The global telemedicine market grew from $9.8 billion in 2010 to $11.6 billion in 2011 and will almost triple to $27.3 billion in 2016, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.6% over the next five years, according to a report from BCC Research.

In its new study, "Global Markets for Telemedcine Technologies," BCC reports that the telehospitals and clinics segment accounted for $8 billion in 2011 and is expected to increase at a CAGR of 16.8 percent to reach nearly $17.6 billion in 2016.

The report from Wellesley, Mass.-based BCC Research breaks the telehealth industry down in an interesting way--comparing "telehospital/clinic" providers (hospitals that sponsor and run telehealth sessions from their facilities) "telehome" providers (which use telehealth to monitor and track patients in their homes).

E-health is a process of delivering healthcare and health resources by electronic means. It helps healthcare providers and patients to interact with each other with the help of electronic media. It is one of the fastest growing sectors in overall healthcare market. Currently, telemedicine market represents a small percentage of e-health market. Telemedicine is defined as use of telecommunication and information technology to deliver clinical solutions to the patients. It includes use of various applications and services such as smart phones, emails, two-way videos and wireless tools to deliver efficient results. Use of telemedicine helps in improving individual health with the help of electronic media. It also increases accessibility by reducing distance barriers between medical service providers and patients. Various services, such as primary care and specialist referral service, patients monitoring, medical education and healthcare information, are provided with the help of telemedicine. Telemedicine comprises of medical records, medical advices, medical imaging and health informatics. It helps healthcare professionals to diagnose, cure and evaluate patients in remote locations, with the help of telecommunication technology. Telemedicine is dependent on health Information technology for its various applications such as administrative billing, electronic health records and store and forward image transfer software.

Telemedicine, telehealth, and M-health markets at $1.5 billion in 2014 are anticipated to reach $45.4 billion by 2021. M-Health markets related to telemedicine will grow the fastest, leveraging 9.5 billion smart phones and 5 billion connected tablet devices installed all over the world by 2021.

A new study Push Telecommunications for Tele-Medicine (PTT) and M-Health: Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2015 to 2021. The 2015 study has 815 pages, 259 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the push systems are used inside telemedicine systems and m-health apps to move patient and clinician communication in a secure manner to and from the person or clinician that needs the healthcare information. Telecommunications initiatives are being implemented with handset and tablet communications for all patients and clinicians.