iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

Telemedicine

5 1/2-Foot Robots Glide Through Hospital Halls

Los Angeles Daily News | Susan Abram | Posted 05.07.2013 | Los Angeles
Read More: Rp-Vita Valley Hospitals, Robots San Fernando Valley, Robots San Fernando Valley Hospitals, Robots San Fernando Hospitals, Video, Telemedicine, Telemedicine Robots, Hospital Robots, Rp-Vita San Fernando Valley, Robots Valley Hospitals, Rp-Vita, Los Angeles News

Robots that will link five San Fernando Valley hospitals together were unveiled Monday at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, where experts said t...

Read Whole Story

Healthcare in the Digital Age

William Kennedy, MD | Posted 02.04.2013 | Impact
Read More: Telemedicine, Physician Cloning, Bblog-Cisco, Cisco's Health Presence, Impactx, Impact, Video, Impact News
William Kennedy, MD

Using modern digital technologies, doctors may soon return to the practice of making house calls, not by carrying a black bag, but by using secured medical airwaves, USB compatible medical diagnostic equipment and their tablet computer.

Read Whole Story

Hey Anti-Choicers: Coercion Is Always Wrong

John Seager | Posted 11.01.2012 | Politics
Read More: Birth Control Pill, Abortion, Sterilization, Iud, Telemedicine, Reproductive Rights, Affordable Care Act, Contraception, Personhood Amendments, Mandatory Ultrasound, Anti-Choice, Birth Control, Philippines, Sex Education, Politics News
John Seager

Thank goodness Mississippi voters -- as have voters in every other state where this issue has appeared on the ballot -- put the rights of women above the "rights" of fertilized eggs. But how soon until a state does restrict birth control?

Read Whole Story

Weekly Pulse: White House Takes Offensive Against Health Care Repeal

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Mmr, Abortion, Gop, Preexisting Condition, Adam Serwer, Telemedicine, House, Robert Kennedy Jr., Retract, Repeal, End-of-Life, Rfk, Ann Neumann, Care2, Salon, Iowa Independent, Republican, Alternet, Tapped, White House, Vote, Insurance, Health, Iowa, Affordable Care Act, Vaccine, Autism, Aca, Medicare, Health Care, Risk, Home News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger This week, House Republicans will hold a vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The bill is expecte...

Read Whole Story

Telemedicine: The Next Big Thing?

Roy Schoenberg, M.D. | Posted 09.24.2012 | Impact
Read More: Telehealth, Telemedicine Definition, Telemedicine Services, Telemedicine, Telemedicine Technology, Impactx, Health Care, What Is Telemedicine, Impact News
Roy Schoenberg, M.D.

Telemedicine is right for a defined scope of medical care, but is not a replacement for the relationship between a patient and her doctor.

Read Whole Story

Technology Is the Key to Equity in Access to Quality Health Care

Julius H. Hollis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Health Information Technology, Technology, Telemedicine, Health Care, Digital Divide, Technology News
Julius H. Hollis

Advanced technologies in our hospitals will improve the well-being of Americans by shortening hospital stays, decreasing re-admissions and providing electronic prescriptions, among other things.

Read Whole Story

Why You'll Need A Personal Brain Trainer

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Senior-Living, Nih, Brain-Health, Brain-Games, Parkinsons, Schizophrenia, Drug Development, Neurological, Cognitive-Science, Allstate, Adults, Technology, Medicine, Efficiency, Games, Therapy, Telemedicine, Safer Driving, Neurocognitive, Myelination, Brain-Fitness-Training, Ucsf, Neuroplasticity, Posit-Science, Internet, Brain-Trainers, Brain-Assessments, Psychiatric, Aaa, Working-Memory-Training, Brain-Fitness, Brain-Training-Software, MATRICS. Neurocognitive Assessment, Neurodegenerative, Mental-Health, State-Farm, Innovation, Embedded Assessments, Alzheimers, Public-Libraries, Cochlear-Implant, Institute-of-Medicine, Fda, Brain-Training, Fitness, Memory, Brain-Functioning, Neuropsych, Cogmed, Coaches, Automated, Scalability, Home Health, Brain-Gym, National-Academy-of-Sciences, Seniors, Speed-of-Processing, Keck Center, Novavision, Insurers, Scientific-Learning, Teens, Integrative Neuroscience, Piano Teachers, Neuropsych Assessments, Personal Brain Trainers, Michael-Merzenich, Scil, Nih-Toolbox, Mci, The Balanced Life, Health, Healthy Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

Substantial gains could be achieved by organizing everyday activities that grow neurological abilities and sustain brain health. If the ordinary citizen is to achieve brain fitness, they'll need to work at it.

Read Whole Story

Innovation in America: An Autobahn, or a Suburban Street With Speed Bumps?

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Fcc, Gps, Telemedicine, Pandora, Dtv, Gary Shapiro, Telework, Innovation, International CES, Dvr, Facebook, Spectrum, Satellite Radio, Sputnik, Broadband, mp3, Julius Genachowski, Federal Communications Commission, Internet, Wireless, Blu-Ray, Youtube, Consumer Electronics Show, Autobahn, Hdtv, Cea, Consumer Electronics Association, E-Book, Technology News
Gary Shapiro

My fear is that my son's future won't include the rapid pace of innovation that we have enjoyed in recent years. What if decades roll by and innovation stands still?

Read Whole Story

State Prisons Look To Cut Medical Costs With Telephone Doctors

Quad-City Times | Kurt Erickson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Illinois Prisons, Telemedicine, Prison System, Health, Illinois Prison Health, Prison Health Care, Chicago News

Hoping to combat rising medical costs, Illinois prison officials have quietly begun investigating a new way to treat inmates....

Read Whole Story

Advice to Obama at G-20 Summit: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: John F. Kennedy, President Obama, G20 Summit, Trade and Poverty, Gary Shapiro, Health Care Kiosk, Colombia, Obama, Barack Obama, Obama and Op-Ed, Trade at Hand, Emerging Markets, Progressive, Peru, South Korea, g20, Free Trade, Protectionism, President Kennedy, A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats, Cea, Jfk, Telemedicine, Free Trade Agreements, Consumer Electronics Association, Poverty, G-20, Business News
Gary Shapiro

I don't know precisely when progressives in this country gave up on free trade. Because when they did, without perhaps even realizing it, they turned their backs on the developing world.

Read Whole Story

A Presidential Rx to Improve Health in the New Year

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: President-Elect Barack Obama, Nih, Telemedicine, Pepfar, Health Care Plan, U.S. Commissioned Corps, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, E-Prescribing, Prevention, Health, Hurricane Gustav, Health Care Budget, Federal Health Initiatives, Doctors, Medical Bills, Global Health, Medicare, Health Care Crisis, Aids, Surgeon General, Health Care, Medicine, Usaid, National Institutes of Healh, Electronic Medical Records, Ostp, Politics News
Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

Our country faces significant health challenges including skyrocketing costs, declining funding for scientific research, and lack of innovation in the government's response to emerging threats.

Read Whole Story