Telemedicine supports patients on warfarin
A clinical study has shown that telemedicine can be used to effectively support patients in the self-management of oral anticoagulation therapy. The study of 1,300 patients showed that one year of telemonitoring led to good results and increased patient self-confidence. Patients on oral anticoagulation therapy with warfarin need to regularly check their INR levels to […]
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ICW selected for US telehealth programme
German e-health specialist InterComponentWare (ICW) has been selected by US health network Coventry Health Care to provide the infrastructure for a home monitoring programme. ICW will provide the interoperability platform and infrastructure technology for Coventry Health’s telemonitoring pilot program. The German company is already involved in two large-scale European telehealth projects, including AOK Plus, a […]
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Geneva boosts telemedicine in Francophone Africa
The decentralised nature of the Swiss confederation has given cantonal governments wide autonomy to spend their money, and Geneva authorities are now using their authority to boost telemedicine in a growing number of African nations. Since 2001, RAFT, which stands for Réseau en Afrique francophone pour la telemedicine (Telemedicine Network in French-speaking Africa), has established […]
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German insurer launches glaucoma telemedicine
Techniker Krankenkasse is to provide patients with a Glaucoma telemedicine monitoring programme as a mainstream service.
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Alcatel-Lucent launches LifeStat
French telecomms giant Alcatel-Lucent has announced the launch outside Canada of LifeStat Remote Monitoring and Health Management, a telemedicine service developed with its Canadian partner SaskTel. The technology will be used to manage patients with chronic conditions in primary care such as diabetes. Future LifeStat applications will include monitoring and reporting for chronic illnesses such […]
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AOK Plus to use ICW telemedicine system
German health insurers AOK Plus has commissioned InterComponentWare to implement a telemedicine system to care for patients with serious chronic heart failure. The service will be offered to patients living in the German state of Saxony. The ICW Care and Disease Manager will be used as the basis of the system. The system has already […]
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Biotronik launches cardiac telecare system
Biotronik Lumax 540 German telemedicine device specialist, Biotronik, has launched a new home monitoring device offering remote, wireless advanced patient management and providing daily protection for patients with life-threatening cardiac conditions. Biotronik’s ‘Home Monitoring’ system has been designed to enable continuous automatic daily data transmission of the patient’s cardiovascular status. Once wirelessly connected, the information […]
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Klinikum Chemnitz hospital links radiology to EHR
Klinikum Chemnitz, one of the largest hospitals in Germany, has become one of the first to link its teleradiology service with an electronic health record using Siemens Healthcare’s Soarian system. As a result radiology data, including diagnosis and corresponding findings, can now be stored in a single shared health record, and then used by different […]
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EHTEL launch report on future of telemedicine
A new report from the European Health Telematics Association has issued a report detailing a series of recommendations for achieving sustainable telemedicine services in Europe by 2020. The ”Sustainable Telemedicine: paradigms for future-proof healthcare” report presents the current achievements and best practice examples drawn from a number of ongoing projects across Europe, as well as […]
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EC publishes Potorož Declaration
The European Commission has published the Potorož Declaration, a list of objectives to achieve before the next EC e-health conference. The Declaration lists five goals for EC member states to achieve over the next 12 months, as part of the work it has published in its e-health roadmaps. These have been agreed by the member […]
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