DUBAI – ICT Health, the healthcare technology company, has entered into a deal with Riyadh Military Hospital to provide its web-based electronic medical records solution which is the first healthcare network in the region to benefit from the technology.
Adding one more feather to Bangalore as the healthcare destination, Indus Westside Hospital, with super speciality facility and dedicated burns ward ICU and true isolation ward has been inaugurated by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
Health and family welfare minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that besides a state-of-the-art cancer hospital in Guwahati, two cancer diagnostic centres will also be set up at Mangaldoi and Sivasagar.
KMC Hospital Blood Bank has earned the distinction of becoming the first blood bank in the state to be accredited by National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH).
The James Paget NHS Trust has entered into a second agreement with NextiraOne, a Europe-based communication services provider, to build additional dedicated data center facilities and provide a new communications platform.
The Ahmedabad-based, Rs 3,000 crore pharmaceutical company, promoted by Pankaj Patel, Zydus Cadila, has received approval from the state government to develop a 22-storey hospital near Thaltej.
Nearly 25,000 British doctors of Indian origin are set to return to India within two to four years to join the seven AIIMS-like institutions proposed to be set up by the central government.
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.
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.
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.
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