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Breakthrough for diabetes self-help

A PhD project at the NST has resulted in the development of a new self-help system for diabetes, based on a mobile telephone, blood glucose meter, and step counter. "We would never have succeeded in this without dedicated users," says researcher Eirik Årsand.
Read more... | 15.01.2010 | Av Jan Fredrik Frantzen

New NST research leader wants to solve "The Big Question"

Why haven't we succeded in building and maintaining large-scale telemedicine services? That is the main research issue that Richard Wootton intends to address as head of research at the Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine.
Read more... | 14.12.2009 | Av Jan Fredrik Frantzen

Aiding the world´s disabled - online

Developers from Tromsø in Norway can become key actors when people in Tanzania, Malawi and Cambodia need prosthesis and other orthopaedic tools.
Read more... | 18.10.2009 | Av Elisabeth Jakobsen

Diabetes systems: wireless mobility wins

Across the world, researchers are working hard to build technological systems to help people with diabetes regulate their blood glucose more efficiently. The key factors to do this successfully is to include mobility and wireless transfer of data...
Read more... | 06.10.2009 | Av Jan Fredrik Frantzen

Sensors not good enough

André DiasAndré Serra Dias from Portugal is doing important research on the relationship between activity levels and how much people are affected by chronic diseases. But the collection of data is hampered by unsuitable sensors...
Read more... | 29.07.2009 | Av Jan Fredrik Frantzen

Everything goes to the cloud - even your health...

"The way we think of health information systems will be changing dramatically during the next few years", says Per Hasvold at Tromsø Telemedicine Laboratory.
Read more... | 03.07.2009 | Av Jan Fredrik Frantzen

Maritime telemedicine must be standardised

Internet-based communication between the maritime industry and health workers onshore is becoming more important. Cooperation is critical for this to be an effective tool for better health care services for seafarers.
Read the whole article... | 12.05.2009 | Av Jan Fredrik Frantzen

Interactive Internet use creates challenges for the public health service

The findings of the European eHealth survey eHealth Trends are clear. Use of the Internet for health purposes is growing steadily, and it is becoming more interactive. Internet health is following in the footsteps of all other Internet use, resulting in new challenges for the public health service.
Read more about the study... | 05.03.2009 | Av Jan Fredrik Frantzen

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