India: Telemedicine set to improve health services in rural areas
Two figures and the stark rural urban healthcare services divide get a perspective. Only two per cent of all medical consultants in the country cater to the 80 crore rural population. Or that the total number of neurosurgeons in Chennai exceeds those in the entire north-east. To bridge this wide disparities in healthcare services, telemedicine was mooted as an option at a workshop organised by SSA (Sarva Swastha Abhiyan) and the Rotary Club of Ahmedabad Metro.
India: Civic body set to go Wi-Fi, but without its grand old building
The largest civic organisation in the country—the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)—is planning to go wireless, after reaping the benefits of e-governance with online payments of bills and death and birth registration. In the first quarter of the next fiscal, the BMC headquarters, 24 ward offices, four zonal offices and four civic hospitals will be connected through Wi-Fi.
India: e-governance, a valuable solution for administration
Maharashtra Government is planning to implement the fundamentals of democracy in a more focused manner and talking the concept of government by the people, for the people and of the people a little more seriously.Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), which also happens to be the largest municipal corporation in the country, has now come out with the web portal of its own. This web portal is dedicated to address the issues of the citizens of Mumbai - resolving issues that they would have and also in bringing the government closer to the people.
Japan: Country's Net capabilities working at warp speed
Americans invented the Internet, but the Japanese are running away with it. Broadband service in Japan is eight to 30 times as fast as in the United States – and considerably cheaper. Japan has the world's fastest Internet connections, delivering more data at a lower cost than anywhere else, recent studies show.Accelerating broadband speed in this country – as well as in South Korea and much of Europe – is pushing open doors to Internet innovation that are likely to remain closed for years to come in much of the United States.
USA: Virginia: UVA Provides Treatment to Remote Areas Via Television
It’s estimated that up to 10% of children suffer from some sort of psychiatric disorder, but not all of those children get the medical help they need.Many children in Virginia have been diagnosed with ADHD, depression, anxiety, and severe anger control; but almost 90 of the 135 localities in Virginia do not have a public child psychiatrist in their city, town or county.
Now the University of Virginia Health System is stepping in with the power of television.