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Monday, January 28, 2013 — No Region Specified

Better Design, Better Health: Bringing Telemedicine to Rural India

Source: Good
Twenty-six year-old Rinku has been bleeding for days. So she did what many village women in rural India do when health problems reach a certain level of severity; she made the multi-hour trip to a private hospital for high-quality, if expensive, healthcare.
TAGS:health care, public health, rural healthcare delivery, telemedicine
Monday, January 14, 2013 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Rwanda: Telemedicine Project On Track Year After Plan Was Hatched

Source: AllAfrica.com
A year after a plan to connect Rwandan hospitals through telemedicine was announced, the government says the project is set to start soon in some district hospitals.
TAGS:health care, infrastructure, public health, rural healthcare delivery, telemedicine
Wednesday, January 09, 2013 — Asia Pacific

S’pore firm and Mongolian government create ‘Medical Silk Road’ to improve healthcare with mobile technology

Source: SGEntrepreneurs
The Mongolian government has partnered with Singapore’s Borderless Healthcare Group to improve rural healthcare through the use of mobile technology. The initiative is dubbed the ‘Medical Silk Road’.
TAGS:health care, mobile applications, rural healthcare delivery, telemedicine
Wednesday, January 09, 2013 — South Asia

Providing remote medical care in inaccessible areas

Source: The Hindu
Future of Indian medicare is Telemedicine, opined experts in the field, which is evolving into a promising technological intervention to provide quick and super-specialty medical care to even people residing in a remote place.
TAGS:rural healthcare delivery, telemedicine
Friday, December 21, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Afroindia Introduces Telemedicine For The Underserved

Source: The Guardian Nigeria
A healthcare service provider in Nigeria, Afroindia Medical Services Limited has signed a memorandum f understanding (MoU) with Apollo Group of Hospitals in India to set up 100 Telemedical centres in West and East Africa.
TAGS:health care, telemedicine
Thursday, December 06, 2012 — South Asia

Telemedicine Still Not Reaching Rural India

Source: Enterprise Efficiency
Building brick-and-mortar hospitals to cater to a country that accounts for more than a sixth of the world’s population is a near impossibility. At present, 65 percent of India’s population lacks access to modern medicine. Less than 10 percent have access to a hospital, and only 13 percent have access to a primary care center.
TAGS:health care, rural development, telemedicine
Monday, December 03, 2012 — South Asia

First-of-its-kind virtual medical kiosk in India

Source: PharmaBiz.com
ehealth Access, a company focused on developing healthcare eco-system through advanced telemedicine technology, launched a first-of-its-kind Virtual Medical Kiosk. This is a breakthrough innovation in technology that will enable patient-doctor consultation in a secure environment.
TAGS:health care, telemedicine

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