Business intelligence key to improving NHS management
Business intelligence tools will play a central role in improving NHS management and meeting the goals of the Darzi report, according to Ardentia.
Hospital news
Docs say IT critical to healthcare reform
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.
ESIC to set up medical colleges
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.
Hospitals use IT to get tough on infections
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, Apollo put expansion on fast track
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.
Global health terminology Workbench launched
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
Hospitals in Chandigarh to be snychronized
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.
Heart health city in Ahmedabad
Next time a Baby Noor of Pakistan needs an advanced heart surgery, she might pick Ahmedabad instead of Bangalore.
Loans to hospitals no longer commercial real exposure
Loans extended by banks to hotels and hospitals may no longer be treated as commercial real exposure.
Alchemist meets world standards in critical care
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.
GCS to pump in INR 722 cr to upgrade Cancer Hospital
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.
Maharashtra’s govt hospitals to be connected
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.
City blood banks not interested in seeking accreditation
Five months have passed since the Quality Council Of India (QCI) organised a sensitisation programme for accreditation of blood banks in the city.
