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.
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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
Carestream chosen for Israel-wide RIS-PACS
Carestream Health has been awarded a EUR 19.4m (USD 25m) country-wide contract for a RIS-PACS project across Israel
20 more biotech parks to come up in India: Sibal
Union Minister of Science and Technology Kapil Sibal has announced 20 more biotech parks will be set up throughout the country for promoting research in the field of life sciences.
New pharmacovigilance products launched
TAKE Solutions Ltd, a leading technology-enabled business solutions provider in collaboration with BaseCon A/S, a Danish Phamacovigilance products company, is launching a new range of Pharmacovigilance solutions for the Asia Pacific pharmaceutical companies.
World News : Dec 2008
State Department, IBM build telehealth bridge to rural Pakistan A telemedicine project by the State Department, IBM, and other public […]
