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CDR Hospitals develops Web-enabled diagnostic equipment
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Hyderabad : Hyderabad-based healthcare service provider, CDR Hospitals group has developed a PC-based Web-enabled diagnostic equipment to facilitate speedy diagnosis of ailment even from a remote villages. The equipment includes: ECG, electroencephalography (to study the brain), electro myelography (to study nerves) and spirometry (to study lung functions). According to Dr C Dayakar Reddy of CDR Group, the company has developed the Web-enabled equipment by combining the computer-aided equipment with Internet protocol. The equipment has the capability to transmit the scanned data from remote villages via the Internet to the specialist doctors, who are stationed at Hyderabad, he added.Doctors in villages can also use the portal facility, as the group has developed a doctor interactive portal, drcdr.com, which will ultimately develop as a telemedicine site with the aim of eliminating the traditional constrains of place, time and cost, Dr Reddy said. Further, the group has also proposed to introduce "Digital Radiography" of Wuestec Inc of USA, a facility to bring revolution in the area of the use of X-rays for the screening of the chest and other parts of the body. This machine will enable the doctor to take the images and transmit the data from one place to other with out any technical problems, said Dr VSV Ram Mohan, Technical Head of e-imaging of the company said. This technology is also considered safer and less of radiation effect, he added. Copyright © 2001 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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