KLAS announces top-performing software and services vendors for 2008
Market research firm KLAS has named Epic as the highest-performing healthcare vendor across all market segments in its annual rankings, which were released recently.
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Pan-European 112 emergency number a reality
Citizens across all European Union countries can now access emergency services by dialling 112, the single European emergency number.
Medicare to pay doctors to embrace e-prescribing
Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and disabled in the US, will offer financial bonuses to doctors who prescribe drugs electronically rather than on paper. Doctors who do not will face penalties from Medicare starting in 2012.
Apollo to foray into drug manufacturing
Apollo Hospitals, India
European drugs to carry barcodes
Medicines sold across Europe will have to carry barcodes and other improved security mechanisms, under proposals unveiled by the European Commission to crack down on counterfeit drugs.
Commission sets out steps on patient safety
The European Commission has published proposals designed to improve patient safety and reduce the number of patients who suffer harm from the healthcare they received.
Govt mulls medical devices price regulation Act
The Government would soon bring in a medical devices Act in a bid to regulate prices of healthcare equipment.
Transasia launches fully automated clinical chemistry analyser
Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd., leader in the clinical diagnostic segment, has launched the EM 200
IBM develops open-standard medical imaging, archiving solutions
IBM has unveiled a powerful combination of advanced imaging and information archiving technologies that provides healthcare and medical research organisations with complete and timely access to critical imaging and diagnostic information at the point of care
Piramal fund may buy Trichy hospital stake for INR 100 cr
Ajay Piramal Group
TPG’s Parkway Health to set up hospitals
Singapore
Perfect vision for health informatics
Representatives of international and regional e-health advocacy groups are meeting at the Wellcome Trust in London this week to agree plans for building
Australian govt approves sharing of patient eRecords
At a recent meeting in Brisbane, health ministers in Australia have finally agreed on a national plan to share patients
