Telehealth

Syed Ishaq, Somnia Anesthesia's vice president of client development, discusses the importance of the anesthesia request for proposal process and factors to consider when reviewing proposals in a new video recording hosted here.

In a recent blog post, Somnia Anesthesia discusses the important role anesthesia will play in hospitals in the future.

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust in Heathrow, United Kingdom, recently announced its decision to employ TeleTracking Technologies' TransportTracking automated portering system, according to a TeleTracking news release.

Acute stroke patients who arrive at Rush Oak Park (Ill.) Hospital's emergency room can now be seen immediately by a stroke neurologist at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center without the specialist actually being there, according to a hospital news release.

Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pa., and Phoebe Ministries, a non-profit healthcare organization for senior adults in Eastern and Central Pennsylvania, have partnered to use telemedicine as a way to provide neurological care to Phoebe residents with Parkinson's disease,…

UPMC's two-year-old pilot offering patients physician diagnoses by e-mail has become popular, but outside insurers still won't cover it, according to a report by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

A team of physicians from McGill's Department of Anesthesia in Montreal have performed the first "teleanesthesia," remotely administering anesthesia to a patient in Italy while they were in Montreal, according to a news release from McGill.

General Electric and Intel have pledged $250 million to help Mayo Clinic develop in-home monitoring equipment that could reduce patients' hospitalizations and ED visits, according to a report by the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal.