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.
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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.
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.
Hospitals must give records within 72 hrs
In a landmark order, the national consumer disputes redressal commission has made it mandatory for all medical practitioners and hospitals across the country to provide the entire medical records of a patient to himher or the authorised nominee or legal authorities concerned within 72 hours of the demand.
Indians can now dial 108 for emergency
India is gradually moving to use of one emergency telephone number across the country, 108, on the lines of America’s 911 and Britain’s 999.
New experiments in government hospitals
Madhya Pradesh government hospitals are being enabled to keep pace with the changing times. With a view to implementing the action plan prepared for this purpose, the State Health Committee has sanctioned INR seven crore 60 lakh 63 thousand.
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.
Agfa HealthCare launches nursing solution ORBIS Care
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, and the Imelda Hospital in Bonheiden (Belgium) announced recently that more than 15,000 nursing documentation forms have been registered electronically in ORBIS(TM), after the initial go-live in November, 2007.
Soon hospitals to be e-linked with CGHS clinics
Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) dispensaries in the city, seven in number, are to get fully computerized.
India to ban mobile phone ads showing children, pregnant women
New guidelines have been drafted by the Indian government banning advertisements showing children and pregnant women.
CIGNA Reaches across borders to improve healthcare
CIGNA is supporting a program that is searching the world for solutions to improving health care. The Global Knowledge Exchange Network (GKEN) was created through an unrestricted grant from the CIGNA Foundation to the Wye River Group on Healthcare (WRGH), a non-partisan group known as a catalyst for constructive health care change.
