Meditour combines upfront telemedicine with medical tourism in India. Apparently you are diagnosed over video and then you fly.

Interesting to see healthcare specific devices come out. This new device is the result of collaboration between Intel and Panasonic. The device has optional GPS, 3G, and barcode scanner. These types of devices will evolve and diversify to meet niche needs. Via HealthBlog

Interesting blend of synchronous and asynchronus telemedicine. The simplicity of this system is striking, once access is taken care of.

Telemedicine: An Evolving Tool for Improving Health Care (via citrisuc)

“EpiSurveyor is a free, open-source, standards-based software package for the collection and analysis of any type of information on mobile devices.” Love this part: “Very easily create custom forms in a simple desktop application, deploy these to one or more mobile devices, collect data in the field and synchronize it back to a PC for analysis.” EpiSurveyor

Intel has made their telehealth ethnographic findings available in this PDF.

“A visiting nurse from Phnom Penh makes the six-hour trip by truck to each village to interview, examine, and digitally photograph patients, then transmits the information by satellite to physicians in Boston using a solar-powered computer.” Internet Village Motoman Network