With the online registration and issuance of birth certificates becoming the in thing in the Indian state Kerala, long wait for birth certificates at corporation and municipal offices is turning a thing of the past.
Hospitals in the Indian city Chennai are now attracting a different class of clients as IT and BPO companies focus more on the healthcare segment.
Kompakar Inc Bhd, an integrated information and communications technology (ICT) provider, has won a RM1.15mil deal with Beijing Plastic Surgery Hospital, marking the group’s first total hospital information systems (eTHIS) reference site in China.
Government ministers of United Kingdom believe that new technology can also be harnessed to help elderly people live independently for longer.
GE Healthcare has announced a worldwide agreement with MobileAccess Networks to jointly offer a wireless communication service for hospitals.
New technologies for seniors, supplementing conveniences like The Clapper and emergency warnings like Life Alert, are on display this week at the White House Conference on Aging.
The non-governmental organisation, Late Vasantrao Sule Medical and Charitable Trust, is launching a call centre in India that will employ only unemployed visually impaired youths.
A recent study by The Focal Point Group LLC predicts that spending for wireless health care applications will reach $7 billion by 2010.
More than 150 movie theaters in US have added special systems to help the deaf, hard of hearing, blind or visually impaired in enjoying a movie.
A contest for information and communication technology (ICT) products for disabled people, entitled “ICT – Light the Hope,” was launched in Ha Noi on 1 december.
In a bid to improve patient care, governments in Europe and North America are pushing for the adoption of electronic records and data transfers, which is kick-starting the growth of a hybrid business that attracts companies from both the healthcare and tech arenas.
The FightAIDSHome project is asking computer users worldwide to donate the power of their idling PCs to a distributed or grid computing effort to fight HIV/AIDS.
Uganda has become the first country in the world to benefit from a healthcare information system that manages, measures and monitors the distribution of Anti retroviral drugs (ARVs).
