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American Diversified Holdings enters Mobile Health Care Market

American Diversified Holdings Corporation has today announced its intention to enter the Mobile Health Care Market as the medical profession gears up to go electronic not only for medical records but also for direct patient monitoring and information.

9 Jun 2010

CompuMed, CSHC partner to promote CardioGram and CardioGramKids ECG for school health centers

CompuMed, Inc., a telemedicine and medical informatics company, has partnered with the nonprofit California School Health Centers Association to promote CompuMed's CardioGram and CardioGramKids electrocardiogram telemedicine technologies for use in school health centers throughout California.

7 Jun 2010

Telemedicine holds key to rehabilitation of people with stroke: Researcher

Telemedicine holds the key to the rehabilitation of people with stroke living in northern, rural, remote Canadian communities, rehabilitation researcher Esmé French told the Canadian Stroke Congress today.

7 Jun 2010

NHO introduces first healthcare assistance program for Americans, employers, groups and associations

National Health Options announces the first healthcare assistance program of its kind designed to offer an affordable, accessible, and comprehensive solution for Americans, employers, groups and associations -- including an estimated 47 million people who are underinsured or unemployed. NHO provides access to high quality healthcare products and services that can improve individual health and welfare.

2 Jun 2010

EHSI develops new iPhone app to reduce medication errors for senior citizens

Emerging Healthcare Solutions, Inc. announced today that a new breakthrough iPhone app is being developed to dramatically reduce medication errors for senior citizens. Millions of seniors in America take a confusing array of medications to improve their quality of life. When they forget to take their medications or confuse dosage and administration times, they suffer.

2 Jun 2010

Firms chase opportunities in online medicine

General Electric Co. chief executive Jeffrey Immelt urged Japan, at a conference in Tokyo Monday, to use health information technology to improve home-based health care as a hedge against the strains of an aging population, The Wall Street Journal reports. Japan's over-65 population is growing, and could top 30 percent by 2030.

2 Jun 2010

Family businesses may miss out on insurance tax credits; Doctors' angry with Congress

The Boston Globe explores a largely overlooked provision in the tax credits offered to small businesses by the new health law to help cover the costs of insuring workers. "[M]any Massachusetts small business owners who employ mostly family members are discovering fine print in the new law that disqualifies, or substantially limits, their tax credit. That language says family-owned businesses are not allowed to count employees who are also family members toward the credit, which is retroactive to January.

31 May 2010

HHS awards $15M to create new center for health information and privacy at University of Illinois

Slowly but steadily the U.S. health care community is moving into the digital age: shifting their medical records from paper to electronic information systems. This movement raises serious concerns about security and privacy of patients' medical information. In an attempt to put these concerns to rest, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded $15 million to create a new center for health information and privacy.

29 May 2010

Zargis Medical launches live-streaming version of Telemed platform at ATA

Zargis Medical Corp., a majority-owned subsidiary of Speedus Corp., today announced that it launched the live-streaming version of its ZargisTelemed™ platform at last week's American Telemedicine Association Conference (ATA) in San Antonio, TX. The system allows healthcare professionals to share stethoscope sounds in real-time with colleagues located anywhere in the world through the Internet or a private network. This technology is cleared for sale in the U.S. and 36 other countries.

28 May 2010

CompuMed's digital telemedicine technologies incorporated in Visio Mobile Diagnostics' healthcare services suite

CompuMed, Inc., a telemedicine and medical informatics company, reported its CardioGram® and OsteoGram® systems have been incorporated as core components of Visio Mobile Diagnostics' suite of telemedicine and digital x-ray-based healthcare services.

27 May 2010

Researchers examine relationship between visiting primary care physician and effect blood pressure

Frequent doctor visits helped diabetes patients lower their high blood pressure to normal quicker, according to a large study reported in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.

25 May 2010

Market for telehealth and home health monitoring to grow up to $7.7 billion by 2012: Survey

AMERICAN TELEMEDICINE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING - Health care delivery in the United States will undergo dramatic changes over the next 10 years through the adoption of telehealth, according to a national survey of health care and information technology professionals sponsored by Intel Corporation.

19 May 2010

Remote Presence hospital networks to accelerate patient's access to clinical stroke experts

InTouch Health, the world leader in Remote Presence Total Telemedicine solutions, is advancing stroke care by developing Remote Presence hospital networks that accelerate a patient's access to clinical stroke experts. To date, the Company has more than 25 stroke and multispecialty care networks comprised of over 300 hospital locations.

18 May 2010

LifeWatch Services to unveil advanced AF TeleClinic service at HRS Annual Meeting

LifeWatch Services, Inc., a subsidiary of LifeWatch AG, will unveil its advanced AF TeleClinic service offering this week at the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) Annual Meeting taking place in Denver, Colorado. The AF TeleClinic service, empowered with the latest communication, IT and medical technologies, ensures physicians are well equipped to deliver optimal diagnostic and treatment options to their patients.

11 May 2010

Connectyx to expand market presence in U.S. EHR market

Connectyx Technologies Holdings Group, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Company is set to expand its market presence in the U.S. Electronic Health Record (EHR) Market. The EHR market is poised to grow at a rate of 13.5 percent over the next four years, and by 2015 it will top $4.85 billion, according to a new study by Kalorama Information.

10 May 2010

MUHC's Henry C. Witelson Ocular Pathology Laboratory celebrates tenth anniversary

The Burnier International Ocular Pathology Society is holding a Scientific Colloquium in Montreal today to mark the tenth anniversary of the McGill University Health Centre's Henry C. Witelson Ocular Pathology Laboratory. The lab is an internationally reputed centre for the study and treatment of eye diseases and is leading a global network for the sharing of healthcare knowledge and expertise.

7 May 2010

Home-based medical devices to grow over 1.6M by 2013: Report

Emerging Healthcare Solutions, Inc. applauded the results of a new report from InMedica on the world market for telemedicine, predicting that the use of home-based medical devices will drastically increase as telemedicine takes-off. According to the report, by 2013 the combined unit shipments of home-use digital blood-glucose meters, blood pressure monitors, weight scales, pulse oximeters and peak flow meters used in telemedical applications will grow to over 1.6 million.

6 May 2010

HHS announces $16M award for Geisinger to create Keystone Beacon Community

Today the Department of Health and Human Services announced that Geisinger Health System will receive $16 million to create the Keystone Beacon Community as part of HHS's Beacon Community cooperative program.

5 May 2010

Micronics receives FDA marketing clearance for ABORhCard

Micronics, Inc., a medical device development company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted the company 510(k) clearance to market its ABORhCard, a qualitative in vitro test that provides a simultaneous determination of an individual's ABO blood group and Rh factor status. It is not for use for blood bank processing of blood products, for determining RHD status for the purpose of administration of Rh immunoglobulin, or for screening purposes prior to transfusion.

4 May 2010

Intouch Health completes $10M private placement through Beringea-led financing round

InTouch Technologies®, Inc. (d.b.a. InTouch Health®), the world leader in Remote Presence Total Telemedicine solutions, announced today the completion of a private placement of $10 million. The financing round was led by Michigan-based Beringea through its InvestMichigan! Growth Capital Fund, which provides venture and expansion-stage capital to businesses with operations in Michigan.

3 May 2010

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Latest Telemedicine News and Research

American Diversified Holdings enters Mobile Health Care Market

CompuMed, CSHC partner to promote CardioGram and CardioGramKids ECG for school health centers

Telemedicine holds key to rehabilitation of people with stroke: Researcher

NHO introduces first healthcare assistance program for Americans, employers, groups and associations

EHSI develops new iPhone app to reduce medication errors for senior citizens

Firms chase opportunities in online medicine

Family businesses may miss out on insurance tax credits; Doctors' angry with Congress

HHS awards $15M to create new center for health information and privacy at University of Illinois

Zargis Medical launches live-streaming version of Telemed platform at ATA

CompuMed's digital telemedicine technologies incorporated in Visio Mobile Diagnostics' healthcare services suite

Researchers examine relationship between visiting primary care physician and effect blood pressure

Market for telehealth and home health monitoring to grow up to $7.7 billion by 2012: Survey

Remote Presence hospital networks to accelerate patient's access to clinical stroke experts

LifeWatch Services to unveil advanced AF TeleClinic service at HRS Annual Meeting

Connectyx to expand market presence in U.S. EHR market

MUHC's Henry C. Witelson Ocular Pathology Laboratory celebrates tenth anniversary

Home-based medical devices to grow over 1.6M by 2013: Report

HHS announces $16M award for Geisinger to create Keystone Beacon Community

Micronics receives FDA marketing clearance for ABORhCard

Intouch Health completes $10M private placement through Beringea-led financing round

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