Category: telehealth

  • The new Face(Time) of telemedicine and telehealth?

    The new Face(Time) of telemedicine and telehealth?

    As someone interested in innovation in health care, I’m very much excited about Apple Inc‘s FaceTime feature announced earlier this year with iPhone 4.  FaceTime is a video calling protocol that can be used by iPhone 4 users. Apple has indicated that they will be releasing the FaceTime protocol as an open standard. The iPad…

  • eHealth in the news….

    Where is telemedicine going? An interesting article that discusses the current state, challenges, and future of telemedicine. The author concludes that “telemedicine has already demonstrated many possibilities for the future. Those delivering healthcare have in many cases yet to understand those possibilities, and to take advantage of them”. It will be interesting to see what…

  • Telehealth Resources

    Here are some interesting telehealth resources that I’ve come across in the past few days: Health Telematics Unit @ University of Calgary UK Telehealth & eHealth Service Office for the Advancement of Telehealth Telehealth.net I will try and post some interesting articles on telehealth in the next few days.