Telehealth

Mason City, Iowa-based Mercy Palliative Care, part of Mercy Medical Center North Iowa, will extend its telemedicine services to more patients in surrounding areas, according to a Globe Gazette report.  

Windber (Pa.) Medical Center announced a telemedicine program in collaboration with Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System to provide emergency care for stroke patients.

UC Davis Health System in Sacramento, Calif., has signed a memorandum of understanding with the state of Sinaloa, Mexico, to partner to improve the health of its community, according to a health system news release.

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.