Broadband improves Rwandan health care

President Paul Kagame says that the ongoing programme to wire up Rwanda will ease health service delivery for its people - "the vast majority" of whom live in rural areas, states Red Orbit.

"The increased bandwidth will allow us to send digital radiology images from district hospitals to experts in our capital Kigali, and outside the country", Kagame told an e-health conference in Italy.

"Given that the overwhelming majority of our population lives in rural areas, this will allow many more patients to easily secure specialist opinion at significantly reduced cost," he continued.

Nexsan, a provider of energy-efficient long-term storage, and GE Healthcare IT, a provider of health-care IT, have entered into a joint alliance to provide state-of-the-art systems for capturing, processing, storing and archiving images in hospitals and other health-care facilities, says CNN Money.

As part of the agreement, GE Healthcare IT has certified Nexsan's green storage solutions with its Centricity PACS-IW imaging solution. PACS stands for picture archiving and communication systems, a storage and management system for high-resolution images.

The certified Nexsan products include the company's SATA line of high-density storage solutions and Nexsan Assureon, a long-term archiving product.

Medsphere Systems Corporation, a provider of open source health-care IT solutions, is moving its corporate headquarters from Orange County to San Diego County, reports Market Watch.

The move is necessitated by two primary factors: recent development and continuing demand for Medsphere OpenVista and rapid expansion of a collaborative open source community, the Healthcare Open Source Ecosystem, oriented around OpenVista.

Medsphere's move to Carlsbad enables the 87-employee company to expand its available physical space by 50% and take advantage of the county's more affordable real estate. The move will also allow Medsphere to expand and recruit more employees from the area's substantial IT talent pool.