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Srishti Software PACS IT with immense Health Potential Bangalore-based Srishti Software, a leading provider of Healthcare Information Management System (HIMS), […]
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European Commission Gives a Fillip to Colon and Breast Cancer Diagnostics The much talked about Colon and Breast Cancer Diagnostics […]
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NaviMedix joins National e-Prescribing Patient Safety Initiative NaviMedix, Inc., a leading player in automating provider communications with health plans and […]
Highmark invests in West Penn Allegheny system
Highmark Inc., leading health insurance provider, took a big step into the hospital business with a deal to invest up to $475 million in the region’s second largest health network: West Penn Allegheny Health System.
NeuroTherm acquires ArthroCare’s Parallax
NeuroTherm announced that they have acquired the Parallax and Contour product lines used in interventional spine procedures from ArthroCare.
Philips Simplifies Medical Imaging Equipment Support
Royal Philips Electronics announced the launch of its RightFit Service Agreement portfolio in North America.
Illinois clinics spearhead effort to fund electronic medical records in rural areas
McFarlin Medical Clinic, with one doctor and 10 employees, can
Clinical drug trials enter electronic world
Pfizer is conducting what it calls the first-ever all-electronic drug trial, in which patients at home will report outcomes to the company through the Internet.
India’s second blade-free lasik surgery comes to Kerala
Eye care is all set to become a key revenue earner for the flourishing medical tourism of God
India promotes health tourism in big way
More people are flocking India for cheaper and good medical services and the numbers have increased drastically over the years.
PACS improves use of clinical decision support systems
Integration with a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) improves radiologists’ use of clinical decision support tools, according to a study in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Technology can help older people who forget
New research has looked at how technology can be used to provide reminders to assist older people in decision making. These assistive technologies have significant potential to help older people and their carers in everyday life.
EHR Adoption Gaining Ground, but Challenges Remain: Report
Despite advances in electronic health care initiatives over the past three years, health IT remains somewhat undervalued, according to National Progress Report on eHealth 2010, an eHealth Initiative report released recently.
