Royal Philips Electronics announced that it has acquired Canada-based Traxtal Inc., an innovative medical technology company in the field of minimally-invasive instruments and software for image-guided intervention and therapy. Traxtal
GE Healthcare, the $17-billion healthcare arm of General Electric launched new, low cost products, aimed at developing markets such as India, as the company seeks to spend around $6 billion on its global strategy to grow its revenues from emerging markets.
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.
HID Global, a leading access and ID management solution provider, is introducing the OMNIKEY 8751 e-Health LAN card reader terminal on the market. The device has already been in use in German clinics, pharmacies and medical practices since 2007 in the scope of the test regions for the new health card. The network-compatible card reader terminal has Gematik
Aquilonis, a mobile software products and solutions company located in Bangalore, India and Boston, Massachusetts, USA has announced a strategic team alliance and partnership with Clinical Solutions International (CSI), LLC to make their mobile communications solutions available to the medical device community.
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has allocated $90 million it described as an “unprecedented level of investment” to electronic health initiatives in its annual budget, including an e-health record for all residents of the territory.
Hyderabad-based Hetero Drugs has bagged the government
Cadila, one of India’s most well-known pharmaceutical companies, has decided to deploy TAKE Solutions’ PharmaReady eCTD, SPL and PPM software.
The Bosch Group will announce the debut of the Bosch Healthcare subsidiary and umbrella brand,, which encompasses a full range of telehealth products and services, at the American Telehealth Meeting (ATA) in Las Vegas.
The Uttar Pradesh government has alerted the State Health Department in the wake of the swine flu outbreak in Europe and America and directed the medical check-up of people arriving from Nepal and at airports in the State.
Entra Health Systems, an international applied healthcare technology company demonstrated the MyGlucoHealth integrated wireless telehealth platform at the American Telemedicine Association Conference in Las Vegas.
TeleHealth Services, a provider of healthcare on-demand patient and staff education, healthcare televisions and communications solutions, has announced a joint initiative with UNC-TV, North Carolina’s member-supported statewide television network, to bring UNC-KD, a new digital TV channel providing programs for children 24 hours a day, to children’s hospitals throughout North Carolina.
iSOFT recently won a two-year deal to implement its eHIS and LabCentre solution at Al Khadra Hospital in Tripoli, Libya.
