It was is sure to be the first of many applications in the health market MIM Software has announced they are the first developer to receive FDA approval for their medial imagining tool for all iOS devices. The application provides physicians the ability to receive medical scans on iPhone/iPad or iTouch devices from doctors or other health care providers. Take
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1 Comment » Although I can not find the direct link to the report it is interesting to read of another NHS trust pushing the use of technology. According to Publictechnology.net Dumfries and Galloway are recommending that the iPhone is fit for clinical use. This is just another example of the use of UC technology within health care.
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Maybe not quite Unified Communications but I wanted to highlight the St Helens and Knowsley Teaching NHS Trust that has just announced that they are going paperless in their day to day operations. By doing so they hope to improve customer service and reduce costs. Take a look at the publictechnology.net article for further details
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More evidence of iPad usage within the health care sector in that Medtronic are buying 4500 units reports cio.co.uk. It would be really interesting to find out what other uses Medtronic will find for them. CIO article here “It was such a huge success, because people came to our booth not to look at the
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While most of us struggle everyday to get basic elements of Unified Communications out to the business world the clever boffins at Bristol University are making Healthcare robots which contain several UC elements – webcam, voice recognition, email and voice capabilities. Oh boy we really do have a long way to go. I can’t seem
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Martha Lane Fox in today’s Daily Telegraph argues there has to be case for the UK’s NHS to adopt Unified Communications across the service. The article has two central themes: Adopting Unified Communications improves service In difficult economic times Unified Communications can help save money Public expectations are certainly racing ahead. A recent YouGov poll
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GE are investing significant amounts of investment into Telemedicine, epecially focused around monitoring the patient and getting the data back quickly to clinicians. GE’s Healthcare’s website doesn’t go into too much detail but I do know that internally GE Healthcare are large users of OCS so it would be interesting to know if there has been any
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Found by @SteffWatson. The Hindustan Times highlights another example of how unified communications can facilitiate effecient ways of deploying healthcare to patients. In this example a research team have explored ways to deliver Anesthesia to remote areas of Canada via video conferencing. In a world first, doctors at McGill’s Department of Anesthesia treated patients undergoing
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The UK government today brought an end to the national IT healthcare scheme stating that IT decisions should be made at a local level. The £12billion programme has received significant criticism since inception for increasing costs, limited functionality and poor delivery. I have never worked directly in the programme so can not comment on these
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Cisco have always been at the forefront of implementing UC solutions for Telemedicine. Yesterday Cisco released another use case based on their Tandberg platform which allowed a remote monastery to receive vital medical assistance from experts over 130 miles away based in St Petersburg. The Tandberg solution, now provided by the Cisco TelePresence Technology Group, connects the remote monastery
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