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While outwardly expensive — installation can range between $2.5 million and $3.5 million — and, to some, a seemingly excessive measure, the off-site support operation has shown itself in studies to be cost-effective in a relatively short period of time. Recovery of patients was faster, mortality rates in ICUs were lower, patients' stays were shorter, thereby shaving hospital costs by 24.6 percent, and fewer intensivists were needed.

Staff at the Queen Victoria hospital in East Grinstead demonstrated their use of modern technology to the health minister Lord Darzi.

"I will want to be reassured that the money has been distributed on the basis of clear clinical need rather than on a first come, first served basis."

Telemedicine allows patients to attend one hospital and receive diagnoses in another through the use of technology.

The explosion of mobile technology presents a great opportunity to scale up the AIDS response in poor countries.

hrough mobile technology, the millions of people in developing countries who had been left behind by the digital divide are now able to access health information and healthcare services at their fingertips. Mobile phones are being used as low-cost tools for HIV testing, data collection, epidemic tracking, and training of health workers, HIV prevention and treatment support.

facilitate electronic communications by developing appropriate standards for information exchange among all health care trading partners.

ncluding electronic data interchange message formats, bar code labeling data standards, universal numbering systems, and the provision of databases which assure common identifiers.

Standardized manufacturer, customer, and product identification codes, including the Labeler Identification Code (LIC), Health Industry Number (HIN®), and Universal Product Number (UPN®) and the Health Industry Bar Code (HIBC) Standards