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US Hospitals Fail to Use Facebook Effectively
US hospitals are not effectively using Facebook to engage patients, develop their brands or build health care communities, according to a new study, Healthcare IT News reports.
St Georg in Leipzig stand good on Siemens Green+ Check Score Card
St George medical center assigned Siemens Healthcare to conduct a Green+ Check to determine its sustainability index and identify areas in which sustainability performance could be improved.
New Test to Diagnose Early Heart Diseases
Treadmill, stress echocardiography, Thallium and Angiography do not detect early blockages.
Higher Hospital Infection Rates in Developing Countries
A study led by World Health Organization says that developing countries have much higher hospital infection rates than the developed world.
DHBs start electronic patient records
Hospitals patients in the lower North Island should find doctors and nurses have better information on their prior care following a project that has been kicked off by the region’s six district health boards to integrate health information technology systems.
Improvement in NHS maternity services
NHS maternity services have improved since 2009, but further progress is still needed, according to a survey conducted by the Care Quality Commission.
Tanda medical college to offer treatment soon
In the next two years, Dr Rajendra Prasad Medical College, Tanda, will start offering medical treatment, bringing major relief to the people of lower Himachal.
New cancer care centre and medical college in Ahmedabad soon
Gujarat will gift a new state-of-the-art super specialty cancer hospital to the world, very soon. The Gujarat Cancer Society will extend its operations to the New Swadeshi mill campus near Chamunda bridge on Naroda Road, beginning from November 11, the auspicious Labh Pancham day.
US hospital unveils plans for US$130m cancer facility
The John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, US, has unveiled a US$130m cancer facility.
Siemens installs Rajasthan
The Chief Minister of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot, has inaugurated the Biograph 16 PET.CT scanner by Siemens at Bhagwan Mahaveer Cancer Hospital, Jaipur. It is the first PET.CT scanner in the state of Rajasthan, which helps in identifying cancer lesions at a very early stage. It also comes with HD.PET technology, which provides the best image resolution in the industry and an X-ray reduction feature, which reduces the radiation dose to the patient up to 68%.
Fortis to buy Hong Kong’s quality healthcare businesses
Fortis Global Healthcare Holdings, prooted by Malvinder Mohan Singh and Shivinder Mohan Singh is all set to buy units of Hong Kong-based Quality HealthCare Asia Ltd for HK$1.5 billion (US$193 million).
Teen gets world’s first permanent artificial heart transplant
He is a 15 years old boy and has become the world’s first child to live with an artificial but permanent heart. The Italian boy, suffering from muscle-wasting illness Duchenne’s syndrome, had the 10-hour operation last week to implant the heart and was said to be well in responsive to the medication, reports news agancies.
