miércoles, 15 de diciembre de 2010

Telemedicine in prisons in others countries

Very interesting article sent by Unesco Telemedicine, about the experiencies of telemedicine in prisons in countries as United Kingdom and USA.

In United Kingdom have a telemedicine project that it provides emergencies services and specialist consults to eight prisons in all british landscape.

In the USA have a telemedicine program in Maine State. Where they have developed a telemedicine network with Polycom systems with some hospitals, health centers, prisons and health and humanity services in all Maine State.



It is very important to check the experiences that various countries are developing in the field of telemedicine, step by step is becoming in one very used technology in various sectors. And as you can see the great benefits of this technology are the high degree of satisfaction of users and medical professionals, reducing transportation costs and reducing long journeys for patients.

Click here if you want to read the original article(article in english)

Sent by Unesco Telemedicine

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