[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.
[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.
[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Editorial
[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 !!
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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
[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.
[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.
[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.
[This article was published in the August 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
As there is generally no medical specialist in remote areas, there is a great need to provide specialized support for the betterment of health in these areas.
[This article was published in the August 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
In response to strong public concern about wait times, Canada�s First Ministers committed to providing evidence-based wait time benchmarks for cancer, cardiac care, diagnostic imaging, joint replacement and sight restoration (cataract surgery).
