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India needs a RSBY like scalable model for providing healthcare protection to the poor, who are mostly working in the unorganised sector, and are bereft of institutional support systems By Dhirendra Pratap Singh, Elets News Network (ENN) Evidence that we can gather from reliable sources provide a rather worrying picture of the average expenditure being [...]
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With large quantum of demand originating from the emerging economies, the activity in the global patient monitoring market seems to be up for a tectonic shift By Dhirendra Pratap Singh, Elets News Network (ENN) Novel patient monitoring systems are being developed to meet the demands of an aging global popula-tion. A few of these latest [...]
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The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) has witnessed unprecedented growth. It is now being heralded as the largest open health insurance programme, not only in India but also worldwide By Dhirendra Pratap Singh, Elets News Network (ENN) India is rapidly transitioning from a large, rural and agriculture-based economy to a modern, entrepreneurial, economy, which is [...]
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Barcode Readers make sure that patients receive the correct medications at the correct time by electronically validating and documenting medications By Dhirendra Pratap Singh, Elets News Network (ENN) According to the American Journal, published by American Medical Association, there are 225,000 deaths per year in the US due to unintentional medical errors. While no Indian [...]
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“While the growth of healthcare Industry and HMIS adoption have surged ahead, policy development by the government has not kept pace,” says Suchet Singh, CEO, Srishti Software. By Anoop Verma, Elets News Network (ENN) What is the focus area of RIS-PACS solutions that you are providing? The focus of RIS-PACS Solution is ease of use, [...]
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“The RIS/ PACS market in India has boomed over the previous year, with a number of PACS players tripling or quadrupling their revenues,” says Dr. Mallika Kapoor, MD, Director, NextGen eSolutions.By Anoop Verma, Elets News Network (ENN)Many healthcare organisations, particularly corporate hospital groups, government bodies, and well-funded Greenfield hospital projects are looking to create Digital [...]
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“A fully integrated workflow involving RIS that is seamlessly integrated with HIS can result in enhancement of exam throughput by 30 – 50 percent a year after the installation,” says Suresh Ranganathan, General Manager, Agfa HealthCare By Anoop Verma, Elets News Network (ENN) What are the focus areas of the RIS-PACS solutions that you are [...]
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“Magnum RIS-PACS caters to multi-site, multi-specialty hospitals, and also to independent diagnostic centres,” says Malav Kapadia – Vice President – Sales, HealthFore By Anoop Verma, Elets News Network (ENN) Tell us about the initiatives of HealthFore in the RIS-PACS space. HealthFore, a division of Religare Technologies, is focused on healthcare with the core purpose of [...]
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On the level of research, medical science is pushing the front and a range of amazing technologies are emerging, one of which is RIS-PACS. Great leaps in this vertical have been made during the last few years. Private companies and government owned entities are investing in quite a number of impressive research projects that are [...]
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Vikas Kharage Mission Director, National Rural Health Mission, Maharashtra The state unit of the NRHM has implemented a comprehensive e-file system which has enabled it to function as a completely paperless office. It has also led to quicker and better decision making and considerable savings in terms of money and time The Maharashtra office of [...]
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