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Archbishop Desmond Tutu to open GT2010 conference by video
In a specially recorded message, the South African Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu will address conference delegates at the opening session of the Global Telehealth Conference in Fremantle, Western Australia, in November 2010. Archbishop Tutu is an Ambassador for eHealth on behalf of the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth. This underlines the global nature of telehealth today, and its potential for improving the lives of people around the world.
Cisco demonstrates "HealthPresence" at its Bangalore-based Globalisation Centre
At a plenary session of the American Telemedicine Association Conference held in San Antonio, Texas last month, the president of ATHS (Yogi Yogesan) and the President of ATA (Karen Rheuban) signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the two organisations. In the picture at left, Professor Yogesan and Dr Rheuban sign the document, watched by ATHS Vice President Anthony Maeder (left) and ATA Executive Director John Linkous (second from right). The agreement binds the two organisations to work together for their mutual benefit, including such things as publicising our respective conferences.
- Victoria to roll out eHealth smart card
- Polycom announces new high definition system
- Study finds telehealth aids heart failure patients
- Senate Committee - telehealth gets a hearing
Recommendation 26 (chapter eight)
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- Telemedicine seen as key to healthcare reform
- Scotland to develop road accident telemedicine system
- RACGP encourages national approach to eHealth support for rural & remote doctors
- Royal Flying doctor service backs eHealth (videoconferencing: not so sure)
- Intel study reveals telehealth will dramatically transform healthcare
- US recovery funding boosts telemedicine
- Future of Australian telehealth projects in doubt
- Australian company announces "single-click" consultations
- Mobile device uses images to help autistic children communicate
- Remote control robot performs heart surgery
- World's smallest, lightest telemedicine microscope
- Cisco tastes its own (tele)medicine
- COAG to "prioritise" Australian eHealth record
- Australian eHealth spending to top $2 billion in 2010
- Polycom exploring possible sale following Cisco's takeover of Tandberg
- Canadian Telehealth and Informatics Societies merge
- Study shows benefits of telemedicine in stroke treatment
- California embarks on a $30M "future of medicine" telehealth project
- Tunstall launches integrated care platform
- Remote health care : body parts make phone calls
- Tandberg announces new point-of-care telemedicine system
- Australian rural doctors worried about diabetes plan
- Philips launches automatic fall detector
- European Union outlines 10 year eHealth plan
- United States FCC predicts health outcomes from National Broadband Plan
- Robosoft demonstrates robot to assist independent living
- United States FCC announces $145M grants for telehealth networks
- Cisco announces HealthPresence platform
- Australia legislates for universal patient identifier
- Telemedicine trial in remote NSW
- Tasmanian Government to integrate eHealth Systems
- Automatic fall detection and monitoring system launched
- First year of the UN mHealth Alliance
- Better computing and communication for emergency personnel at disaster sites
- Major role for telemedicine in Haiti
- MyGlucoHealth diabetic monitoring service launches in Australia
- California to host next-generation telemedicine technology
- WA Health issues $4 million Cisco contract
- Half of European doctors use web video
- Northern Territory pushes the button on new e-health messaging system
- Study Questions Value of Remote Patient Monitoring in ICUs
- Blackpool Telehealth Pilot Sees 75% Reduction in Hospital Admissions
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