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Befunde elektronisch zu verschicken ist nicht so einfach, wie man glauben könnte. Das bemerkten Forscher des Innsbrucker Medizin-IT-Zentrums Hitt 2002 am Beginn des Projekts Health@net. "Der Empfänger muss, um Datensicherheit zu gewähren, eindeutig identifiziert werden können. Außerdem mussten wir die Formate der Arztbriefe standardisieren", sagt Thomas Schabetsberger rückblickend. Er leitet das Projekt an der auf medizinische Informatik spezialisierten Universität Umit und kümmert sich nun im Unternehmen ITH icoserve um die Markteinführung einer Software, die Spitäler untereinander vernetzt und den Zugriff auf Befunde erleichtert - vorausgesetzt, der Patient gibt sein Einverständnis dazu. Keine doppelten Untersuchungen, keine Zeitverzögerungen, Kostenersparnis: Schlagworte, die aus dem Traumbuch heimischer Krankenkassen und Spitäler kommen könnten.

Revenue from telehealth devices grew only 5 percent between 2010 and 2011, and 18 percent between 2011 and 2012, even as remote patient monitoring grew, InMedica says in a news release.

Telemedicine project aims to provide telemedicine facility to the grass root level population as part of proof of concept technology demonstration programme. This telemedicine facility will connect the district hospitals and health centres with super specialty hospitals in major cities to provide expert consultation to the needy and underserved population. People living in rural/remote areas of Pakistan will be able to seek advice and treatment from specialist doctors of major hospitals in big cities. The project will also contribute towards professional development of doctors working in rural/remote hospitals, who will be able to get guidance, advice, and training in advance diagnostics and treatment methods through interaction with specialist doctors in urban hospitals.

With the help of this system, specialist doctors can examine patients that are located far away from their offices and recommend doctors located in those districts how to treat the concerned patient, a meeting held on Saturday to review this system was informed.

Addressing the launching ceremony of the Hospital Management Information System Project at Capital Hospital, he said the telemedicine projects were meant to assist the government in transforming delivery of health-care services and making them available at the doorsteps of common man.

The purpose of this fund is to increase the penetration of telecom services in rural areas, install broadband technology and encourage the use of various e-services, including facilities such as telemedicine. One of the USF’s largest projects is the establishment of Multipurpose Community Telecentres (MCT) in rural areas.

By monitoring 'care co-ordination and telehealth' (CC&TH) initiatives in five European regions, the program will create a 'cookbook' of best practices to facilitate their deployment. This could potentially transform care for millions of chronically ill people and save healthcare systems billions of euros each year. In the EU, some 10 million people suffer from heart failure, 20 million have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease2 (COPD) and 60 million live with diabetes. Each year, these three conditions cost EU healthcare systems around €125 billion.

The launching was made under the supervision of the Libyan Specialised Medical Field Council and the Post Offices, Telecommunication and Information Technology Holding in the presence of Jean-Pierre Onvehun Ezin, the African Union Commissioner in charge of Human Resources, Science and Technology.

Over the past decade, numerous hospitals and clinics have begun experimenting with telephone-based care to treat a litany of health problems, with surprising success. Now a recent study has found that it can even ease pain and depression for cancer patients.

"Telecare provides additional support to people and can help them feel included and part of something," said Dr. Cynthia Lee Dennis, an associate professor of nursing at the University of Toronto who has studied the effect of telephone counseling in women with postpartum depression.

Additionally, the report estimates that revenue for telehealth services will balloon tenfold, from $440.6 million in 2013 to $4.5 billion in 2018. The report's authors point to the introduction of mobile health hubs and projected growth in wearable technology as catalysts for such growth.

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He would never know what he is suffering from had it not been for a medical mission conducted in their area. His younger brother helped him to join the other residents. One of the doctors examined him closely. He was told that the reason his vision was waning was due to diabetes.

Also known as House Bill (HB) 6336, Telehealth Act of 2012 aims to strengthen Health Secretary Enrique Ona’s commitment to provide telehealth services to at least 606 poorest municipalities in the Philippines.

The bill “would benefit patients and medical professionals who can now use Internet technology to tap medical expertise,” Rep. Joseph Emilio Abaya, the bill’s author, said in a press statement.

Comste has a target of deploying 200 new telehealth clinics within the next two years. The commission is also targeting the development of new biomedical devices/subsystems–ECG, blood tests, urinalysis, disease screening in coordination with local electronics industry partners.

Department of Health secretary Enrique Ona, who is a member of the Comste health panel, noted that the role of ICT would play an important role in making the move towards achieving universal healthcare.

At the recently held International Symposium on eHealth and Telemedicine, representatives from the Philippines as well as India, Pakistan, Malaysia and the World Health Organization (WHO) presented new ideas and developments in telehealth.

It is a technology designed to enhance access to healthcare in remote villages.

In a recent interview, DOST Secretary Mario Montejo said they have rolled out 100 units of equipment in various areas of the country to test the efficiency of the system. If the test will succeed, the official is eyeing to roll out the technology on 2012.

The nurse program is set to launch next week and deploy 243 nurses to 28 municipalities in Cagayan de Oro and Misamis Oriental.

Angara, Chair of the Congressional Commission on Science, Technology and Engineering (COMSTE) noted that in Region 1 the ratio of healthcare workers per person is a disproportionate 190 per 100,000 people.

A complete rollout of the system, called the National Telehealth Service Program, is targeted next year, Technology Secretary Mario G. Montejo said in a recent press briefing.

“This is our answer to the problem of doctor-less municipalities. People can be diagnosed of illness even if the doctor is not present in their area.”

Dr. Phoebe dela Cruz, municipal health officer (MHO), said in an interview that the San Jose de Buan and Villareal town in Samar, a coastal municipality, were chosen as beneficiaries of the program.

The National Telehealth System (NTS) connects hospital-based medical specialists and patients in remote and geographically-isolated areas where access to quality medical specialty care is poor. This is done through an appliance called RxBox that collects health data from patients in rural health units.

A measure set before the House of Representatives proposes to maximise the country’s telecommunications infrastructure to deliver health services seldom reached by conventional means.

According to Representative Joseph Emilio Aguinaldo Abaya of Cavite’s first congressional district, “telehealth” can lessen direct and indirect health care costs, especially out-of-pocket expenses that are a major burden to patients and their families.