Home Updated: 26 February , 2001 


Telemedicine Articles Around the World

(Source: Tie)

An article in the February 2001 Fast Company describes a new project in Latin America called Unwiring the World, which is creating portable digital town centers: recycled shipping containers furnished with telemedicine units, cash machines, micro computer schools, soil-and-environment testing labs, FM radio stations, wireless satellite links, and big-screen TVs.

Another effort at closing the digital divide is going on in Cambodia, as described in Remote Cambodian Village Establishes Internet Telemedicine Link Aimed at Closing Digital Divide, a Yahoo News article for 13 February, 2001.

Another February 13th article in the Washington Post Online describes Expanding the Reach of the Healing Touch: Med-Tel Technology Links Rural Patients With Specialists. Med-Tel is a Maryland-based company expanding the reach of its telemedical services to rural areas in the U.S. as well as abroad.

Finally, a look at how home telecare is practiced in rural Japan is described in a 12 January article I.T. Takes a Village: Facing Isolation and Obsolescence, A Japanese Town Goes Online

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