Ranbaxy looks to rebuild its US business
After facing massive losses coupled with regulatory hurdles in the American market, Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd has chalked out plans to revamp its US business.
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Ojjus medicare Chief Operating Officer will receive
Healthcare Management Expert, Dr. Pradeep Bhardwaj, Chief Operating Officer (COO), Ojjus Medicare Group of Hospitals, has been selected for the Rashtriya Rattan Awards
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.
iSOFT wins US$ 3.54m deal in England for a hospital information system
iSOFT, an IBA Health Group Company, today announced that it has won a contract for a hospital information system with a National Health Service (NHS) trust in southern England worth US$3.54m over five years.
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.
Telus plans to bring “patient centred” e-health system to Canada
Telus is tapping Microsoft’s HealthVault Web portal to bring a novel electronic health records management system to Canadians.
Philips announces the acquisition of traxtal, a medical technology innovator in image-guided procedures
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 plans to invest $6 Billion on healthcare
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.
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.
OMNIKEY 8751 e-Health LAN includes an RFID interface for online use free of charge
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 partners with Clinical Solutions International, LLC
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.
Australian Capital Territory budget injects $90m into e-health
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.
Hetero bags Government’s anti-flu drug deal
Hyderabad-based Hetero Drugs has bagged the government
