Telehealth
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.
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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.
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