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U.S. Army tests telemedicine at remote outposts in Germany
The U.S. Army's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany serves as kind of a hub for care for American service personnel in Europe and often is the destination of choice for wounded warriors... Read more...
VA's telehealth budget may double, but strategic questions linger
The Department of Veterans Affairs, which already cares for 35,000 patients remotely via home telehealth technologies, would get $163 million for home telehealth programs under the Obama... Read more...
Investor conference highlights personal medication compliance
Some emerging technology companies are banking on remote monitoring, mobile access to information and telemedicine to drive the consumer healthcare revolution we've been waiting, oh, about a decade... Read more...
Physician attitudes often hinder remote monitoring
"Are Doctors Ready for Virtual Visits?" read a New York Times headline from last week. It's a question we've been pondering for some time. Now, Dr. Pauline Chen, writing in the Times, ponders for the... Read more...
Virtual doctor visits widen access, but still draw controversy
Fans of mobile healthcare and telemedicine know what the bloviators in Washington seem to be ignoring in this folly of a healthcare debate that's kept the nation so rapt for months: you can expand... Read more...
Army wants to add behavioral health to Joint Telemedicine Network
The U.S. Army's surgeon general wants to employ the Army's Joint Telemedicine Network, now in use in Afghanistan and Iraq, to deliver much-needed mental health services to deployed soldiers. The... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: British government pledges millions for home telehealth
The government of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged 130 million pounds ($216 million) to provide home telehealth care and home adaptations to help an estimated 130,000 people live... Read more...
Inventor discusses the future of emergency mobile telemedicine
In our "Also Noted" section today, we mention some new telemedicine breakthroughs from medical inventor R. Lee Heath, the same person who developed the technology that underlies the automatic... Read more...
Army pilots text messaging to manage health of wounded vets
The U.S. Army is piloting a telehealth program to monitor seriously wounded veterans via cell phones in an effort to increase contact with case managers and perhaps ease their recovery. The program,... Read more...
Dedicated Bluetooth connection resolves speed, connectivity issues that hold back telemedicine
When it comes to technology in healthcare, speed is everything. If a new technology slows doctors down, watch how fast they revert to their old ways. So there's some promising news out of India in... Read more...
