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Visiting partner

E-Health Insider speaks to Joseph Ternullo, assistant director of Partners HealthCare in the US, about why telemedicine could be the
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Virtual chaperone keeps watch on clinicians

Recording devices such as a ‘virtual chaperone’ for clinicians have been developed in Imperial College, London in the hope that
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Release the pharmacists

Better application of technology could take the administrative burden away from hospital pharmacists, leaving them free to concentrate on patient
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Robot cat gives patients happy felines

Researchers in Georgetown University, Washington DC, have found that stroking a robotic cat is more beneficial to health than petting
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Tele-echography robot allows remote patient scans

A university research team has developed a robotic device that allows a doctor to examine a patient in a remote
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Does Dr Robot usher in new era of metal medics?

From automated call-centre systems to car assembly factories, it seems that wherever you look, a robot is waiting to take
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US healthcare IT looks kinda familiar

In a second article on healthcare IT systems in America, Andrew Harrison reports from the 650-bed Lenox Hill Hospital in
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