General Electric Co (GE) is scouting for acquisitions to scale up its presence in India. The diversified engineering and services major is looking across a gamut of sectors for opportunities to acquire firms, especially the core infrastructure, healthcare and the media space.
[This article was published in the September 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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[This article was published in the September 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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Kuala Lumpur-based multinational hospital chain Columbia Asia Hospitals has opened its Kolkata unit, the fourth in India after two in Bangalore and one at Gurgaon.
Apollo Hospitals Dhaka (AHD) has achieved prestigious accreditation from Joint Commission International (JCI), the worldwide leader in improving the quality of healthcare for the first time in Bangladesh.
Klinikum Chemnitz GmbH has become one of the first hospitals in Germany to link its teleradiology service with the electronic health record (EHR).
CIGNA is supporting a program that is searching the world for solutions to improving health care. The Global Knowledge Exchange Network (GKEN) was created through an unrestricted grant from the CIGNA Foundation to the Wye River Group on Healthcare (WRGH), a non-partisan group known as a catalyst for constructive health care change.
SBI Life Insurance, a joint venture between the State Bank of India (SBI) and BNP Paribas Assurance, plans to launch a health insurance product by the end of July 2008.
Yos Technologies, the newest entrant in the healthcare IT domain, based in Bangalore has announced the general availability of its flagship product YosCare.
The Quality Council of India is seeking help from corporates for elevating quality standards in hospitals. It is planning to ask corporate houses to make quality certification mandatory before empanelling hospitals for providing medical benefits to their respective employees.
Sidney Taurel, CEO, Eli Lilly and Company called on the health care industry, medical community and U.S. government to work on a health information technology system to provide rapid and useful insights on the effectiveness of medicines while improving drug safety.
Software Advice recently launched its Medical Software Advice website, a free resource designed to match medical software buyers with the right technology for their practices.
