Burns specialists from throughout the world will make a virtual visit to Brisbane today (Friday, August 25), as part of a telemedicine conference hosted by The University of Queensland’s Centre for Online Health.

25 August 2006

Sick children in regional Queensland can continue to access specialist doctors thanks to continued funding of a successful service that links doctors and patients via digital lines and the Internet.

1 September 2005

More than 2000 consultations by a “virtual doctor” have been provided to children in regional Queensland thanks to world-leading research by The University of Queensland and valuable funding by the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation.

8 December 2004

The University of Queensland’s Centre for Online Health (COH) often links patients in a remote location with doctors in Brisbane, but this week the link had a royal flavour.

28 July 2004

Young people with diabetes in Central Queensland will soon be screened for a potentially damaging eye condition without visiting an eye specialist thanks to a new telemedicine research project.

22 September 2003

What chance of relief has a child with severe medical problems when he lives on the slopes of the Himalayan Mountains? Quite good, in fact, thanks to a group of Queensland doctors and an internet-savvy charity that is connecting doctors with...

31 July 2002

Internet hype heads for the recycle bin next month - at least where telemedicine is concerned - when e-health practitioners from around the world meet to discuss failures as well as successes in this futuristic field of medicine.

25 July 2002