Now, thanks to the Nova Scotia Telehealth Network, the MacLellans Brook resident can receive relief and check-ups from her dermatologist here at home.

“Instead of driving to Halifax for five minutes, it’s unbelievable – not only the cost, but the time,” she says.

Principal secretary IT and electronics, Chandra Prakash, said: "The main point raised was about updating Government Orders (GOs) that pertain to the running of various departments. Many of these were not updated on the respective websites of the department.'' Following the orders, National Informatics Centre, the government's partner organisation in implementing technological services, worked overtime to update websites for different departments and uploaded over 600 GOs that were issued in the recent past.

To maintain transparency in the working of different departments and enable faster information dissemination, the state government today decided to update all the official websites on real time basis.

Although, the websites of various departments have been functioning for several years, the latest information is not updated either due to laxity of the concerned department or lack of technical expertise.

The Government is making all efforts to translate the dream of paperless governance into a reality. Over 671 million telephone subscribers, 20 million Broadband connections and 3G services are expected to be rolled out by the end of 2010, targeting 40% rural teledensity and Broadband connectivity to all Gram Panchayats by 2012. Plans are also afoot for delivering financial services using mobile technology. These factors clubbed with e-governance initiatives i.e. mandatory e-delivery of identified services are going to further enhance the magnitude of e-demands.

Establishing an IT strategy is one thing; executing on that strategy is something entirely different--and much harder. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra is learning the challenge of getting from one to the other.

Kundra has taken on the huge task of modernizing and optimizing federal IT operations, which he's tackling through a series of initiatives introduced over the past 12 months by the White House and the Office of Management and Budget. They include ambitious government-wide plans for cloud computing, open government, data center consolidation, and IT project management.

In Colorado, the Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is tapping the power of the Internet to make easier the process of alerting an investigating agency of a tip, along with making available information about homicide victims, missing persons or unidentified remains found in the state. Announced Tuesday, Aug. 24, the Cold Case Database allows users to search through the state's 1,600-plus cold cases by name, gender, age, physical characteristics, location, incident date and investigating agency. The cases date back to 1970.

Assistant Minister of Communications and Technology Ahmad Basel al-Khashi said in a statement to SANA these registers include the civil, judicial, health and the real estate among other registries.

He pointed out that the Cabinet has asked all ministries to include the projects for building their own national registers and making them available for electronic exchange within the coming five-year plan.

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was visiting the Democratic Republic of the Congo one year ago, she met a woman who, in her eighth month of pregnancy, had been raped multiple times. Distant from any hospital, the woman was kept alive through the efforts of fellow villagers to stem her bleeding (they packed her wound with grass). Her fetus, unfortunately, died.

"I've been in a lot of very difficult and terrible settings," Secretary Clinton remarked. "And I was just overwhelmed by what I saw."

The subject has drawn fire recently because of a complaint about the way Planned Parenthood doctors are using video to prescribe abortion pills to faraway patients. But the new committee’s focus will be broader than that one use.

The committee’s appointment was announced today by the Iowa Board of Medicine, which licenses physicians. It will include three current board members – Ames businesswoman Ambreen Mian, Muscatine obstetrician Colleen Stockdale and Ottumwa psychiatrist Joyce Vista Wayne – plus a former board member, Dr. Carole Frier of Des Moines. Board staff members also will work with the committee, which is to come up with recommendations on how the state should regulate “telemedicine.”

"The BRIC telemedicine technology market is expected to reach a size of $307.4 million by the year 2014 growing at a CAGR of 16.6per cent from 2009-2014 and BRIC telemedicine service market will reach $111 million in 2014 with CAGR of 13.8 percent, According to the new market research report by MarketsandMarkets.