Responding to the requirements of the medical electronics industry and to create awareness about the opportunities as the next growth area after IT sector, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry launched the “FICCI Medical Electronics Forum” (FICCI-MEF) on October 23, 2007 at FICCI New Delhi.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a US$400 million financial assistance package for Indonesia to improve education and healthcare services in the country’s poorest families.
The Wockhardt Hospitals group is foraying into Delhi. Its 250 bed facility in Delhi will be operational by 2009.
Mumbai-Based business process outsourcing company Accentia Technologies has reportedly acquired three US-based healthcare BPO companies for about INR 800 million, sources close to the deal said.
Omega Healthcare, provider of healthcare BPO and KPO services, has announced growth plans for its Indian operations over the next 18-24 months. The Company plans to invest over $14 million to expand its Bangalore and Chennai facilities and will more than double its employee base to 3,000.
Stressing the need for better healthcare facilities in rural India, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has said the country will spend two per cent of its GDP on health in the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-12).
Philips’ new IntelliVue MMS X2 and IntelliVue MP2 are the latest examples of the company’s commitment to patient care and safety.
The multi-million dollar Hinduja group has finally revealed its plans of investing in India’s sunrise sectors like healthcare and insurance.
A Chennai-based visually impaired software professional, Krishnakant has developed an ‘open source voice-enabled software’ based on LINUX system, for the benefit of visually handicapped.
Google is also looking to figure out how to create transportable personal health records that give users.
Quidel Corporation a leading provider of rapid point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tests, announced that Adventist Health System has chosen Quidel as its supplier for rapid point of care influenza test kits.
The software giant is encouraging companies to develop RFID applications for the free online medical database service it recently launched.
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