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Nursing students to aid govt hospitals: Minister
Nursing students to aid govt hospitals: Minister

The Government of Karnataka will request nursing schools and colleges to spare the services of their students to help government hospitals tide over the acute shortage of staff nurses. The government will also consider requests by MLAs to set up government nursing schools or colleges in the respective areas as a permanent solution to the problem.

REACH Call launches REACH 3.0
REACH Call launches REACH 3.0

REACH Call, Inc., a provider of 100 percent Web-based solutions for remote treatment of medical conditions such as stroke, announced the latest version of its telemedicine solution, REACH 3.0. The enhanced next-generation REACH 3.0 release accelerates the use of telemedicine by enabling specialists to remotely uate and diagnose virtually any acute medical condition that requires time-critical treatment using customized applications.

More mobile clinics in Karnataka
More mobile clinics in Karnataka

With the success of 31 mobile health clinics that were introduced three months back in the rural districts of Karnataka, the State Health and Family Welfare Department, is geared up to introduce 29 more in next two weeks.

Slovenia rolls out e-health insurance card system
Slovenia rolls out e-health insurance card system

The Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia (HIIS) has decided to roll out a new electronic health insurance card project to streamline the patients’ claims processing system. The new system enables healthcare providers to instantly and accurately check a patient’s health insurance status and allows for health claims to be processed online.

Wave Medical, clinical decision support now in hand
Wave Medical, clinical decision support now in hand

Health professionals need to look no further than their iPhone to support them at the point of care. Wave Medical, who provides clinical decision support applications to general practitioners, nurses, emergency doctors and medical students has recently expanded its mobile platform offering to include the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Multi-disciplinary health care village planned in Kerala
Multi-disciplinary health care village planned in Kerala

A multi-disciplinary health care village has been proposed on 40 hectares of land in Kozhikode as part of providing integrated treatment facilities from all scientific streams of medicine. Conceived by Infrastructures Kerala Limited (InKEL), the village, to be completed in four years, is estimated to cost Rs.417 crore.

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