SES and the Luxembourg government have reached an agreement to broaden the reach of the SATMED telemedicine project through 2024. This is a program that has been in use since 2014 that uses satellite to connect doctors and nurses in remote locations, providing a platform with cloud applications for e-training, virtual consultations, medical data records,…

Inmarsat has signed a new deal for its Fleet Connect service, the operator announced on Tuesday. Evitalz Health Management will join a group of certified application providers to offer a dedicated application for Inmarsat’s Fleet Connect service prioritizing healthcare for people on board ships. Evitalz will use Fleet Connect to provide its telehealth solution; a combination…

As I write this, we are now just over three months into the COVID-19 pandemic which has changed everyone’s lives significantly. While lockdown conditions are starting to ease, there is now talk of a second wave in many countries. With a vaccine is still a few months away it seems at the earliest, one of…

The pictures in Northern Italy resembled a war zone. The hospitals were over-run. The body count was stacking up. People could not say goodbye to their loved ones and the panic and fear that set in Northern Italy was about to hit the whole world, and the world knew it was coming. It was time…