In an effort to improve healthcare access for tribal residents in remote hamlets and hilltop regions, the Andhra Pradesh government has launched its first prefabricated health sub-centre, known as a “container hospital.” Built from shipping containers, this innovative medical facility is designed to provide essential healthcare in areas where medical services have been historically limited. … Read more
Mumbai: Dr Nihar Parekh, Lead Paediatrician, Second Opinion Online Consultation For Children (SOCC), interacted with ETHealthworld’s Prabhat Prakash on how technology is helping to bridge the gap in improving paediatric care regardless of geography. He also shares how early detection of ailments allows parents and doctors to provide needed care to children. Edited Excerpts: How … Read more
Udhampur:The Union Minister of State (I/c) for Science & Technology Dr Jitendra Singh on Sunday launched an AI supported telemedicine mobile clinic “Aarogya – Doctors on Wheels” for remote hilly areas of Ramnagar region in Udhampur district of J&K. The state-of-the-art tele-clinic is Artificial Intelligence-driven to provide healthcare facilities in far flung areas of the … Read more
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, spoke to Hari Subramaniam, Founder & Director, LifeSigns, to figure out the current trends in remote patient monitoring that are poised to propel healthcare to the next level. Remote patient monitoring: Latest advancements In the past, patient monitoring primarily relied on manual procedures. Nurses were responsible for periodically checking on patients, … Read more
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, spoke to Deepa Param Singhal, Vice President – Applications, Oracle India, to know more about the latest advancements in Artificial Intelligence impacting healthcare and how Oracle is contributing by way of connected data approach. AI impacting patient careRecent technological innovations have extended their reach into the healthcare sector, notably through the … Read more
Chandigarh: If all goes well, PGI’s department of telemedicine will soon start using drones for transportation of organs, besides delivering medicines at remote and tough terrain of Himachal Pradesh. This will do away with the compulsion to transport retrieved organs within a 20km radius and the need for a green corridor. The aerial radius of … Read more
Washington: The hybrid “eBiobots” are the first to combine soft materials, living muscle, and microelectronics, said researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University, and collaborating institutions. They described their centimeter-scale biological machines in the journal Science Robotics. “Integrating microelectronics allows the merger of the biological world and the electronics world, both with many … Read more
With Mr. Devender Lal’s condition remaining critical, the medical officials at Killar requested Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu to arrange for his airlifting. | Photo Credit: PTI Hours after he had sustained serious injury, 43-year-old Devender Lal was airlifted on Tuesday from the snowbound valley of Pangi in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh to a … Read more
Washington [US]: According to a new assessment published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, digital systems for patients to remotely monitor and report symptoms may offer a way to minimise outpatient waiting lines. The review, led by researchers from the Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes Research (CPROR), Institute of Applied Health Research … Read more
No demonstration of the remote electronic voting machines (RVM) before political parties was held after the opposition sought more discussion. The date for political parties to submit written responses has now been extended to February 28 from January 31, according to sources. The political parties sought for consensus on the issue, sources said. Opposition parties … Read more