A 62-year-old man from Shenzhen, Guangdong province has become the first patient in China to be implanted with St Jude Medical’s Eon neurostimulator, a rechargeable device used to help manage chronic pain. Despite prior back surgeries, the patient suffered from chronic back pain for more than a decade.
UK Telecoms watchdog OFCOM has given the go-ahead for 111 to become the new three digit number for accessing non-emergency healthcare 24-hours a day.
IBM today announced a C$22.5 million project with the Government of Manitoba to enhance healthcare throughout the province with the creation of an electronic healthcare records (EHR) system.
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Global Baroda Hospital (GBH) in India has entered into an information-sharing agreement with US-based Englewood Orthopaedic Hospital to provide international standards of medical care for joint replacement surgeries.
Leading clinical decision support provider Clinical Solutions has appointed Paul Champion as utive Vice President, Solutions.
Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospitals group said it intends to open a 2,000-bed multi-speciality hospital in the Cayman Islands in two years’ time as part of its expansion plans.
The Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal announced that the State Government would soon initiate a pilot project to set up a Dental Implant Centre at Mohali, the first-of-its kind in India under Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode to provide the best quality implants to the common man at affordable rates.
Genpact, a leader in managing business processes, announced the successful implementation of two pilot projects using the Hospital Operating System based on its proprietary Smart Enterprise Processes (SEPSM) methodology for New Delhi based Lok Nayak Hospital and Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital respectively.
iSOFT has announced the launch of iSOFT Aged Care – Enterprise Wide Health (EWH), an integrated management solution for aged and community care organisations.
The Indian railways is looking to greatly improve its medical facilities by using the public-private partnership model. It proposes to establish 18 medical colleges attached to existing railway hospitals through PPP.
UnitedHealthcare in the US said it is helping improve access to healthcare by connecting its network of doctors, clinics, hospitals and other healthcare services via a new iPod application, DocGPS App.
Microsoft is to buy Sentillion, a specialist in single sign-on technology for the healthcare industry.
