Specialised Hospital units by Government
The government will open more trauma-care centers and increase the number of beds and doctors in critical units of state-run hospitals in an attempt to reduce overcrowding and denial of admission.
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Radiology imaging technology to study mummies
Dr Harry G. Zegel, chief of Lankenau Medical Center’s Department of Radiology, and his team of radiology physicians and technicians had the rare opportunity to scan a pair of mummies Thursday evening.
ICICI Lombard became implementing agency for Goa health insurance scheme
ICICI Lombard has successfully fended off competition from six other bidders to emerge as the implementing agency for the health insurance scheme launched by Goa.
EMRs a risky investment for small physician practices
Problems with the reliability and utility of electronic medical record systems has caused hardships for some small physician practices — costing them tens of thousands of dollars and limiting access to patient care.
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$659m poured to support Chinese province health sector
Nineteen provinces and municipalities have spent a total of 4.28 billion yuan ($659 million) to support health sector development in western Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region over the past year.
WHO puts world on swine flu alert
With 74 countries reporting 27,737 cases of infection, including 141 deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 June 2009 declared influenza A (H1N1), also known as swine flu, a pandemic.
US market for PACS and RIS will grow to $3 billion
Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, finds that the US market for picture archive communication systems (PACS) and radiology information systems (RIS) will grow to $3 billion by 2010.
Michigan-based program includes more than halved dose for CT Angiography
On an average more than half of radiation dose for CT angiography was cut for around 5,000 patients with not notable effect on quality of the image.
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Three major hospitals in Pune implement SoftLink's HIS For more than a decade SoftLink International has been developing cutting-edge products […]
RFID can help in maintenance of patient monitoring devices
Managing patient-monitoring equipment typically used for measuring patients’ heart rate, blood pressure and other vital signs goes far beyond simple inventory control, to include the need to ensure inspection, calibration, self-test results and safety upgrades, while minimizing down time.
Low carbohydrate diet poses no risk to heart
Though low-carbohydrate, high-fat diets have suffered a bad rap for being a health hazard; a pair of new studies suggests they pose no immediate risk to vascular health in obese people.
Beedi workers to get health insurance
A meeting of the Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, decided to extend the insurance cover to the beedi workers spread across the country, with the government spending an estimated Rs 311.25 crore on it.
