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BioLink achieves Microsoft certified partner status
BioLink announces being awarded a Microsoft Competency in Independent Software Vendor (ISV)/Software Solutions. The Microsoft Certified Partner Status is achieved through BioLink’s extensive experience and expertise in building biometric ID systems for middle and large enterprises, its competency in developing ID solutions based on Microsoft technologies, and highly positive feedback from customers.
Health in emergency to be on concurrent list
The Health Ministry is working on a Bill which, if all goes to plan, will place public health in times of natural disasters, epidemic outbreaks and acts of terror in the Concurrent List before the end of this year, giving the Centre the power to independently promulgate laws and lay down rules. Public health is so far a state subject, exclusively in the domain of state governments.
GE with Global eHealth Leader to enhance its Information Exchange Services
Global eHealth specialist InterComponentWare, Inc. (ICW) have signed an agreement with GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company.
Gujarat’s first spine centre inaugurated at Wockhardt hospital
Gujarat’s first spine centre was opened at the N M Virani-Wockhardt hospital.
Apollo Hospitals to hive off pharma retailing into separate company
Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd intends to spin off its pharma retailing business into a separate company, though not immediately.
CBaySystems to invest $25 mn and up headcount in country
With a view to rapidly ramp up operations and expand its footprint in the country, CBaySystems, has drawn up a US$ 25 mn capex plan over the next two years.
RFID may cause hospitals
Radio frequency identification devices (RFIDs), commonly used in hospitals for tracking supplies may prove potentially dangerous for the patients, a team of Dutch scientists claim.
HCL Info bags US$ 23 m deal for Pan-African project
Domestic IT major HCL Infosystems has bagged a US$ 23 million deal to implement IT infrastructure for the Pan-African e-Network Project, which provides tele-education and tele-medicine.
Insured losing access to healthcare: US study
About 20 percent of the US population delayed or were unable to get access to medical care when they needed it in 2007, up from 14 percent four years earlier, a study released recently found.
Robotic surgery at AIIMS for rare neuro disorder
On Saturday, for the first time ever, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) performed robotic thoracoscopic thymectomy on patients with myasthenia gravis, a rare autoimmune disorder.
Face to face with the future
It is like an image from outer space. But this eerie picture is the way of the future where parents and their unborn baby are brought face to face.
Oracle announces creation of health sciences global business unit
Responding to continued growth in clinical trials as well as the increasing linkages across life sciences, diagnostics and healthcare, Oracle recently announced the formation of a new Global Business Unit focused on software applications for the health sciences industry. Neil de Crescenzo has been named Senior Vice President and General Manager for the business unit.
