General Data unveils Web site

General Data Company has unveiled a new health care-focused Web site, www.general-data.com/healthcare, says Data Collection Online.

Delivering timely information to enhance patient safety in medical facilities, the site will provide health care professionals with an overview of innovative new bar code-based identification, tracking and workflow solutions for hospitals and laboratories.

"Our new Web site allows health care professionals immediate access to new technologies that can help their organisations increase efficiencies and save lives," says Ralph Moher, vice-president of marketing, General Data Company.

The Princess Mother's Medical Volunteer Foundation, the Ministry of Public Health, and Huawei technologies have released a pilot project to use 3G CDMA EV-DO technology to provide health care to rural areas in nine provinces in Thailand, states Bangkok Post.

Under the project, 49 sets of notebook PCs, data cards and mobile phones from Huawei on CAT Telecom's CDMA EV-DO 3G network will be donated to the foundation with unlimited airtime and data services for one year.

The launch, at the remote town of Mae Lana, near the Burmese border to the north, sees the tiny, remote village connected with a CDMA EV-DO Revision A base station at Doi Kew Lom via a repeater on the nearby hill. The station at Doi Kew Lom, in turn, is connected to the fibre ring at Buppa Yarm (to the west) via two microwave hops over mountainous terrain.

Recognising the increasing workforce demands of the healthcare industry, the US Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) recently introduced a Bachelor of Science degree option in health informatics, reports Media Newswire.

OIT is the first Oregon university to offer a baccalaureate programme that prepares students for a career in health informatics.

Health informatics, applied health care IT, is seen as one of the key components to creating an improved, higher-quality health care system. Health informatics is the link between management, computer information technologies and medicine, OIT explains.