Two of the largest US health insurers have agreed deals to pay tens of millions of dollars to create independent claims rates databases, following an investigation into claims that databases had been rigged to manipulate payments.
KTwo Technology Solutions, a 200 plus people Bangalore based company and an Intel India Design house vendor unveiled its Healthcare device targeted at rural and urban markets.
The standards and foundations for nation-wide e-health solutions in Australia have now mainly been completed, according to Peter Fleming, Chief utive Officer of National E-Health Transition Authority(NEHTA), leaving implementation on the agenda for 2009.
The President of India has conferred nineteen Padma Awards for the year
Industry association Ecma International has published the standard for a new ultra-fast radio. The 60GHz standard for short-range unlicensed communications provides a high speed wireless personal area network (including point-to-point) for bulk data transfer and multimedia streaming.
Four entities representing the federal government, the aerospace and defense industries, the biopharmaceutical and healthcare industries and higher education in the US are joining forces to increase business and government use of an existing information infrastructure used for the trusted exchange of confidential information over the Internet.
Celestial Biologicals Limited (CBL), an associated company of Intas Biopharmaceuticals Limited, and GE Healthcare, the USD 17 billion healthcare business of General Electric Company, announced recently a collaboration to set up India’s first Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) compliant Plasma Fractionation facility in Ahmedabad.
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) announced that it will make Affiliate Licenses for the use of SNOMED CT available to users in low income countries free of charge, as they are in IHTSDO Member countries.
Healthbase and WellPoint will collaborate to bring affordable healthcare benefits to Americans through an international medical tourism pilot program.
Weakening economies are set to push spending on information technology products and services down 3% after seven years of continuous growth, according to Forrester Research.
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.
