UnitedHealth Group has adopted new standards for healthcare ID cards across all its health plans. The cards will provide patient eligibility information and access to a personal health record, and process healthcare transactions.
Two physician organisations are weighing in on the healthcare piece of the economic stimulus package, calling on the president and Congress to support healthcare information technology, additional funding for primary care training, Medicaid funding for states and comparative effectiveness research.
The Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), under the Labour and Employment Ministry, will set up 11 medical colleges and 13 postgraduate medical institutions to provide better health care and superspeciality treatment to the insured.
Fortis Healthcare and Apollo Hospitals Enterprise are buying existing their presence in the world’s second most populous nation, where at least 70 percent citizens do not have access to medicine. According to some official sources, Fortis may sign at least four strategic deals including signing management contract with one hospital and acquisition of some hospitals plots.
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.
Perot Systems Corporation has been selected by the Kingdom of Jordan to manage the pilot deployment of the open source clinical information system VistA at two hospitals and a clinic in the capital, Amman.
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) has launched a new IHTSDO Workbench designed to make it easier to use the clinical terminology SNOMED CT
