Two physician organisations are weighing in on the healthcare piece of the economic stimulus package, calling on the president and Congress to support healthcare information technology, additional funding for primary care training, Medicaid funding for states and comparative effectiveness research.
The Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), under the Labour and Employment Ministry, will set up 11 medical colleges and 13 postgraduate medical institutions to provide better health care and superspeciality treatment to the insured.
South Carolina’s 65 acute care hospitals are banding together to prevent healthcare-acquired infections across the state. The effort is expected to save hundreds of lives and as much USD 40 million a year.
Fortis Healthcare and Apollo Hospitals Enterprise are buying existing their presence in the world’s second most populous nation, where at least 70 percent citizens do not have access to medicine. According to some official sources, Fortis may sign at least four strategic deals including signing management contract with one hospital and acquisition of some hospitals plots.
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) has launched a new IHTSDO Workbench designed to make it easier to use the clinical terminology SNOMED CT
Jolting the health department in Chandigarh out of its slumber, the recent case in PGI where a patient died for being admitted to ICU allegedly due to bed shortage, has once again raked up the issue of synchorinzing all hospitals.
Next time a Baby Noor of Pakistan needs an advanced heart surgery, she might pick Ahmedabad instead of Bangalore.
Loans extended by banks to hotels and hospitals may no longer be treated as commercial real exposure.
Alchemist Hospital in Panchkula, India, is one of the few hospitals in the country having world-class ICU certified by College of Critical Care Medicine in Mumbai, India.
The utive board and general board of GCS, which runs the Cancer hospital, recently approved an ambitious plan to to convert the hospital into a super speciality cancer care and research institute that will provide treatment at par with international standards.
Government-run hospitals in the state of Maharashtra will soon be electronically inter-connected and every patient visiting the hospital will be given a unique health identity number and will have access to his medical history at any hospital across the state.
Five months have passed since the Quality Council Of India (QCI) organised a sensitisation programme for accreditation of blood banks in the city.
Rockland Hospitals, a multi-speciality hospital offering health care services with its main branch in New Delhi is planning expansion in Tier-II and Tier-III cities in Northern India like Lucknow, Jaipur, Agra, etc., next year.
