India and China work towards better health services
In strengthening the bilateral cooperation, India and China have decided to work together in improving health care services and deepening of bilateral cooperation in the health sector.
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Infosys Seeks to Jumpstart health insurance exchanges
As information technology companies continue to seek new opportunities in the lucrative healthcare IT market, Infosys Technologies Ltd. has launched a health insurance exchange platform that it says will help states establish insurance exchanges mandated under the Affordable Care Act.
Many US hospitals overuse double CT scans
Hundreds of hospitals are routinely performing a type of chest scan that experts say should be used rarely, subjecting patients to double doses of radiation and driving up health-care costs.
Health sector reforms announced in West Bengal
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said a three-phase developmental system will be taken up to improve the state’s ailing health services sector.
Multidisciplinary Central Research Lab in Govt Colleges
Government has proposed to promote biomedical research in government colleges; the Department of Health Research has proposed to set up a multidisciplinary Central Research Lab (CRL) in various government colleges.
IRDA postpones Health Insurance Poratbility
The citizens need to wait for implementation of health insurance portability system by IRDA across non-life insurance companies to October 1.
MCI rejects Medtronic new equipment
Medical equipment giant
Max Healthcare looks for strategic alliance
Max Healthcare is likely to enter into an equity-cum-strategic alliance with a private equity (PE) firm-backed global hospital major.
PE Fund invests in Wellspring Healthcare
Venture capital firms Catamaran, the Anil Ambani Group
New dashboard software helps hospitals comply with US regulations
Health care software developer VitalWarehas introduced VitalView, a Web-based project-management tool that provides clinical and financial data to help health care companies adhere to new federally mandated diagnosis codes.
Innovations bags award
ISLH 2011, the XXIVth on Technological Innovations in Laboratory Haematology was organised from May 6th
Wipro Technologies Launches Cloud-Based portal for Clinical Trials
Wipro Technologies, the Global Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing business of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT) announced a secure cloud-based productized solution called
