GE enters home healthcare monitoring market
GE Healthcare, a business of General Electric Co., is entering a potential USD 5 billion international market providing health monitors for the elderly who live alone.
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iSoft India gives shape to world’s largest health project
Healthcare software provider iSoft has said that its Indian R&D team is developing a solution what it described as the world
Siemens wins one of the biggest orders for medical systems
The Catholic Medical Center in Seoul, Korea has ordered a total of seventy systems of medical equipment from Siemens Healthcare. Worth around 40 million USD (appr.
Wockhardt to open 7 hi-tech hospitals
Wockhardt Hospital Ltd (WHL), part of INR 3,000-crore Wockhardt Group, is planning to expand its operations across the country.
Escorts introduces 3D Trans Esophageal Echo in India
Escorts Heart Institute in New Delhi has introduced at their facility the latest 3D Trans Esophageal Echocardiography with benefits such as 3 dimensional picture quality, timely diagnosis and better accuracy.
Apollo Hospitals to set up 250 small health centres
The Tamil Nadu-based Apollo Hospitals group will set up 250 small hospitals across the country including the north-east by 2013, a senior company official revealed recently.
ESIC to set up med college in Mumbai
Mumbai city will soon get a new government medical college, thanks to the ESIC (Employees
India leads the way for personalising medicine in developing countries
India is playing a major role in raising the standard of personalised medicine across the world, especially developing countries.
Apollo
The dry run of the initial INR 5 crore EMR (Electronic Medical Record) system by Apollo in association with 40-odd hospitals in south India and networking of 2 lakh doctors will be done by October of this year.
JJ Hospital upgradation plan runs into trouble
The mass purchase of medical equipment for JJ Hospital’s INR 120-crore upgradation plan has run into trouble, with some companies questioning the tender process followed by the state government.
Balco to build INR 300 cr cancer hospital in Chhattisgarh
The Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco), which is a part of the Vedanta Group, will spend INR 300 crore in building a cancer hospital and research centre here, officials.
Apollo, IGNOU to offer 45 health-related courses in India
Health service provider Apollo Group and Indira Gandhi National Open University recently signed a memorandum of understanding to launch 45 medicine-related courses in four verticals from January next year.
Govt puts clinical research approvals on fast lane
The government has begun speeding up approvals in the area of clinical research which is set to boom in India, say top industry sources.
