Telemedicine
TV white spaces support health care deployment
Spectrum Bridge is working with Airspan on a solution leveraging WiMax and Wi-Fi....
Obsidian encryption key to Cox life sciences connection
The operator claims the genomics research institute link is the nation’s fastest life sciences supercomputer connection....
Verizon launches cloud-based health info exchange
A monthly fee-based system eliminates the need for health care providers to create their own systems....
Telepresence: Not just for meetings any more
Emerging applications in health care, education and industry offer new opportunities for service providers...
Navajo Nation bridging broadband divide with LTE
Seeking stimulus funds to bring fiber to 27,000-square mile Navajo reservation in Arizona, tribal utility plans to use 4G for last-mile broadband access...
Verizon launches medical record exchange
New offering enables doctors to dictate and securely share notes about their patients...
Nuance extends mobile apps to medical field
Speech-to-text vendor Nuance ties smartphones with healthcare; Sprint extols virtues of 4G for mobile health ...
Verizon gets 'healthy'
A year ago, Verizon began forming its Connected Health Care group to go after this growing and profitable vertical opportunity. A year later, we look at how it's fared....
Verizon packages up tele-health collaboration
Verizon today introduced a set of new health care managed services to enable long-distance video consultations along with other types of audio and video collaboration...
Faster images mean faster diagnosis and happier patients
Holy Name has made a name for itself on the cutting edge of medical technology being the first hospital in New Jersey to perform Cardiac PET/CT stress testing, a process that is available at only a handful of U.S. medical institutions ...
APPLYING TECHNOLOGYTO GETTING MEDICAL TESTS RIGHT
One of the major targets of enabling health care to be more efficient is making sure patients get the right kind of medical testing done and that no unnecessary...
OPERATORS PIECE TOGETHER THE M2M PUZZLE
Wireless operators have decided to stake their claim in the mobile telematics market. In one sense, it was a market they were never absent from those...
Hospitals becoming wireless hotbeds
Over the last several years, many hospitals have gone from being no-cellphone zones to wide-open wireless environments, with multiple types of wireless networks co-existing to provide anywhere communications and real-time delivery of medical testing data and telemetry...
Telecom in the telemedicine value chain
Telecom service providers are methodically addressing the business side of the telemedicine value chain by focusing new resources on the health care industry, in particular hospitals and medical practitioners...
TELEHEALTH: THE SOLUTION FOR MEDICAL FREQUENT FLIERS
While many people think of telemedicine as a relatively new phenomenon, Sentara Healthcare has been running a TeleHealth program for the past 10 years...
MEDNET
As the largest integrated health care provider in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, Sentara Healthcare already had a network solution...
Telecom giants focus on health care business opportunity
Recognizing that the health care industry is a major opportunity for new service revenue, telecom service providers are tailoring their sales approach and, in many cases, creating new sales and customer service organizations designed specifically to create solutions for health care operations. ...
Telemedicine Trends, Part 2: Wearable radio devices to transform home health monitoring
New ZigBee standard devices expected to burst on the market soon...
Health care industry a challenge, opportunity for telecom
Aging population, need for efficiency drive new IT and networking initiatives but will telecom providers just be the pipe?...
MedNet takes patient records securely on the road
Regional backbone to link hundreds of doctors, hospitals in single EMR-sharing system for better patient care...
