LIC’s new unit-linked health policy
Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has launched its first long-term unit-linked health insurance policy called Health Plus, which will provide health cover for an entire family.
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Wockhardt Hospitals to invest INR 569 cr in growth
Wockhardt Hospitals, associate of Harvard Medical International (HMI) a self supporting not-for-profit subsidiary of Harvard Medical School has chalked out a growth strategy with an investment of INR 5.69 billion in expanding, developing and constructing both greenfield and brownfield expansion plans.
Hinduja
The Hinduja group has evinced an interest to set up a state-of-the-art medicity near Kolkata. The proposed medicity will house a medical college, a dental college, a nurses
SRIT
Sobha Renaissance Information Technology (SRIT) has been conferred 2nd position for its joint venture
NHS urged to work alongwith pharma industry
New guidelines, issued by the Department of Health, call for more partnerships between the NHS and drug companies, stressing they should be “of mutual benefit with the principal beneficiary being the patient”.
iSOFT in agreement with ML Park (Russia)
iSOFT Deutschland has strengthened its position in Russia’s healthcare market after a partnership agreement with ML Park of Moscow to distribute and support iSOFT’s laboratory information systems (LIS).
Philips’ latest offering: Fetal-Maternal Monitors
Royal Philips Electronics recently released its Avalon FM40 and FM50 fetal-maternal monitors. The Avalon FM40 and FM50 are the newest additions to the Avalon family of fetal-maternal products, which includes the Avalon Cordless Transducer System (CTS) and the Avalon FM20 and FM30 fetal-maternal monitors.
GE Healthcare with CenTrak to track healthcare equipment
GE Healthcare is to work with CenTrak to produce a predominantly battery-operated radio frequency ID (RFID) tracking system.
ICICI Venture buys majority stake Vikram (Mysore)
ICICI Venture, part of the financial conglomerate, the ICICI Group, has announced that it has taken a majority stake in the Mysore-based healthcare company, Vikram Hospital Private Ltd (VHPL).
Yos Technologies launches comprehensive healthcare system
Yos Technologies, the newest entrant in the healthcare IT domain, based in Bangalore has announced the general availability of its flagship product YosCare.
MedStar takes one-vendor approach with Cerner IT
The largest health system in the Baltimore-Washington area, with 147,000 inpatient admissions and 1.5 million outpatient visits a year, has tapped Kansas City-based technology company Cerner to implement several Cerner Millennium applications throughout the healthcare system.
Cisco plans research centre in Qatar
US networking giant Cisco said recently that it plans to establish a research and technology centre at the Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP).
Next-gen RFID solutions are battery-based
A partnership between GE Healthcare and CenTrak, Inc., a tracking solutions provider based in Newtown, Pa., has led to the development of a predominantly battery-operated radio frequency ID tracking system.
