The Health Hiway – driving information based healthcare : Aparajithan Srivathsan, Head – Healthcare Business Solutions, IBM, India

[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Market for healthcare services in India is growing at a rapid pace, and a large number of healthcare entrepreneurs are setting up different types of healthcare facilities, right from super specialty hospitals to primary care clinics, and alternate therapy units to specialized centers for wellness management – in the process, investing more than US$ 2 billion every year on infrastructure alone !!

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Challenges for Health Insurers & TPAs Data enhancement and information sharing in the health insurance sector : Alam Singh, Assistant Managing Director, Milliman

[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

The issue of data has presented several challenges to all the health insurance industry stakeholders. Till a couple of years ago, the primary challenge was that the data requirements and uses of data was not always fully understood by some critical stakeholders.

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Indian PACS Market Changing Dynamics : Anurag Dubey, Industry Analyst, Healthcare Practice, Frost & Sullivan

[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) is a rapidly evolving technology that is being adopted by healthcare facilities, as part of an ongoing trend to maximize efficiency in the acquisition, storage, distribution, and interpretation of diagnostic images through the digitization of these functions. In the broadest sense, PACS is often understood as a system that is used in the digital management of medical images.

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Insurance Sector – Riding High on the Healthcare Boom : Susan Thomas, eHEALTH

[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Growth of health insurance increases the need for standardisation, regulation, interoperability and information exchange.

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Enhancing the Usability of EMR through Multimodal Interactions : Vijayrajan A, CTO & CIO, Manipal Hospital, Bangalore

[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

�EMR applications and implementations need to meet the tough demands of care delivery process and environment� -Vijayrajan A, CTO & CIO, Manipal Hospital, Bangalore shares his thoughts on this critical issue that often becomes a determinant between success or failure of IT implementation in hospitals

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Frost & Sullivan HealthIT utive Summit, Goa

[This article was published in the October 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

The surf-n-sand is surely a holiday goer�s delight, and for that matter, reason enough to indulge and set free from hectic work schedules and deadline blues.

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Pocket Electronic Health Diary (PeHD) : Dr Shabbir Syed Abdul

[This article was published in the September 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

PeHD is a pocket electronic health diary system created on patients� own interest and managed by hospitals who offer it.

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Laboratory Information Systems: Coming to the Fore

[This article was published in the August 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

LIS can ensure quicker availability of test results and analysis in ICUs, operating rooms or emergency room settings.

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Converting Challenges into Opportunities

[This article was published in the August 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

EDITORIAL

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User-Driven Healthcare- A Conceptual Model : Dr. Rakesh Biswas, Dr. Nupur Sarka

[This article was published in the August 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Learning, be it e-Learning or otherwise, is a cyclical process of reflective observation based on day to day concrete experiences, followed by abstract conceptualization and active experimentation at either individual or group levels.

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The SOPARNO Project Set to Make an Impact

[This article was published in the August 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

SOPRANO stands for �Service-oriented Programmable Smart Environments for Older Europeans� and it is an integrated project in the European Commission�s 6th Framework Programme (IST Priority 6th Call on Ambient Assisted Living or AAL).

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Philips Flexing Muscles in Diagnostic & Imaging Markets

[This article was published in the August 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Philips is one of the leading players in healthcare, mainly in the markets of medical diagnostics and patient monitoring systems that include X-Ray, general ultrasound, computed tomography (CT) scanning and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

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Towards Nano Products in e-Healthcare Environment : GL Narasimha Murthy

[This article was published in the August 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Hospitals are also moving away from purchasing point solutions and toward buying equipments from different vendors that are interoperable, and that have a uniform user interface.

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