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Singapore firm eyes medical tourism dollar
News Local startup launches Web platform offering patients help with travel arrangements and advice on hospital selection, in hopes of boosting tourism into the region.
Tags: Web services, Web sites, Philippines, Thailand, e-Service, Singapore, FlyFreeForHealth, network, Deloitte LLP, call-center
Hospice care gets tech boost
Insight Singapore's non-profit healthcare institutions adopt mobile devices, shrugging off image that the industry is a technology laggard.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Wireless e-mail devices
A touch of healthcare and technology
Insight Dr. Colin Quek, CIO of Raffles Medical Group, discusses why the social component of healthcare can make IT spending more complex in this industry.
Tags: IT budgeting, Project management, IT budgeting, Project management
Getting tested for H1N1 flu in Singapore
Blogs A colleague of mine returned to Singapore on Wednesday, May 27 from Boston, USA, where he'd spent the week between May 1...
Unclean mobiles 'like sucking a toilet bowl'
News Tests of mobiles belonging to 200 doctors and nurses working in operating theaters and intensive care units show 95 percent were contaminated with bacteria.
Tags: Cellular phones, Toilet, Mobile, Cell Phone, Survey, computer keyboard, phone, Worker, Turkey, keyboard
US healthcare experts warn of IT adoption challenges
News Health care providers and other experts challenge U.S. President Barack Obama's assertion that implementing the use of electronic medical records will be easily implemented.
Tags: Business applications, Data Management, Data security, Security Management, healthcare reform, health industry, health care company, electronic health record, network, data management
Wireless industry wants in on US healthcare stimulus money
News Wireless industry is hoping it can reap the rewards of billions of dollars being spent on health care technology as part of the economic stimulus package.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Wireless LANs, Handhelds, Cisco Systems Inc., Wireless, wireless industry, Wireless LANs, Hospital, electronic health record, electronic record
Cisco helps S'pore hospital tuck patients in bed
News Alexandra Hospital trials a new healthcare application to speed up hospital admissions.
Tags: 802.11/Wi-Fi, Business applications
Singapore hospital boosts bedside care
News Singapore General Hospital installs touchscreen systems at inpatient wards, making it easier for doctors to access medical information and patients to access the Internet.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Wireless e-mail devices, Monitors and displays
Student nurses get realistic training
Insight A Singapore polytechnic hopes the use of PDAs will help foster a new generation of tech-savvy nurses.
Tags: Handhelds, Wireless e-mail devices, Mobile/Wireless
UCSF nurses test medical tablet PCs
News Intel and Motion Computing show off the C5 tablet PC, a digital assistant for overworked health care workers.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Mobile platforms/communications, Development/design
RFID people-tagging 'benefits health sector'
News The percentage of worldwide radio frequency identification projects concerning tagging people has increased from eight percent to 11 percent over the last year, according to new research--with the healthcare sector set to see the benefits.
Tags: RFID
S'pore hospital to use tablet-like PC
News New mobile device promises to improve patient care at a Singapore hospital, the first in the world to use it in an Accident and Emergency environment.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Mobile/Wireless, RFID, Development/design, Network infrastructure, Mobile
Healthcare RFID to track blood
News To help medical staff cut clinical errors, a German hospital is conducting a trial to verify blood goes to the right patient using RFID-tagged blood bags.
Tags: RFID
Intel unveils prototypes for doctors, health care
News Chipmaker shows off concepts and prototypes of future computers for use by doctors, nurses and patients.
Tags: Hardware, Components, Processors, Personal Computers
