International Development and Evolving Dimensions in Telemedicine : F. Lievens, Board Member and Secretary/Treasurer, ISfTeH, Switzerland & M. Jordanova, Solar-terrestrial Influences Laboratory, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

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

eHealth is brought to life by contemporary changes of our world and summarises the entire range of services that are at the crossroad of traditional healthcare and information technology. eHealth affects the entire health sector-from general practitioner to the hospital manager, from nurses to software specialists, from social security funds to patients.

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Financing Indias Healthcare Infrastructure Needs : Dr. Rana Mehta, VP – Healthcare, Technopak Advisors Pvt. Ltd.

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

The concept of an Inflection Point suggests that there are critical points in the history of an industry or an individual company that signal permanent and enduring change.

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Conference on Emerging Role of IT in Healthcare, 29 February 2008, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

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

As healthcare sector is building up in India, so are the standards of service delivery and quality. In particular, IT has the capacity to play a crucial role and be a differentiator in this process.

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Preparing for the HEALTHCARE BOOM : Sarita Falcao, Research Associate,eHEALTH

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

9 million jobs are expected to be created in the health care industry by 2012. Find out where, why and who stand to gain the most.

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Its yet another new year …and a new beginning indeed !

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

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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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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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