Doctors and patients nowadays don't have to be in the same room for treatment. In fact sometimes it's best if a patient can stay home. Telemedicine makes it possible to provide optimal health care at a distance.
Telemedicine (9:42 min, subtitled video)E-learning was once hailed as a great way to use multimedia, but it lost footing in the telecom crash. Now, players in e-learning have re-grouped and focused on what the learner needs, and how technology can assist.
Bangladesh is a country of remote villages and few mobile phones. But an innovative cooperative effort between GrameenBank and GrameenPhone has put mobile phones into the hands of women in villages, allowing villagers access to the world in a new and beneficial way.
Mobile learning is about leveraging wireless and mobile technology to better enable people to learn, says Technical Director Mark Stimson. He foresees that it will allow learning to become subconscious.
3G technology is enabling premature children to be treated at home. The Children's Hospital at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm has equipped its mobile nursing team with 3G phones and laptops, enabling them to send video messages to doctors and access patients' folders.
