GE announces healthcare initiatives
GE Healthcare, the USD 17 billion healthcare business of General Electric Company, today announced healthcare initiatives targetted at early health care in the country, including a tie up with four partners.
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Ericsson enter into new UN initiative to bring digital-health benefits to Africa
Ericson has partnered with the United Nations Office to use telecommunications to bring mobile-health applications and services (m-health) and telemedicine to rural Africa. As a founding member of the UN’s Digital Health Initiative, Ericsson is taking another step in its ongoing commitment to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which aim to reduce global extreme poverty.
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.
eHEALTH India 2008 Event Report
[This article was published in the September 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
eINDIA 2008, India�s largest ICT event was held from 29th to 31st July 2008 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
Rural areas reap benefits of telemedicine
Quicker access to cardiologists, neurologists or radiologists even in remote places in Karnataka is now a possibility, thanks to advances in telecommunication. Cardiac emergencies like thrombosis are now being attended to by trained doctors at the Chamarajanagar district hospital and at 19 public health centres (PHCs) under the Karuna Trust.
New telemedicine service to help in the care of sick babies
Tiny Tom is the latest development of the tele-paediatric service, a major research project run by The University of Queensland’s Centre for Online Health (COH), a research centre based in the Royal Children’s Hospital in Brisbane.
Project Franchise Lab – Healthcare at the bottom of the pyramid : Shibaji Mandal,Director – Healthcare, Krishi Gram Vikas Kendra, Usha Martin
[This article was published in the July 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The massive yet unexplored rural healthcare market is drawing the attention of many today.
Road Ahead – Health Insurance Summit, 25th May 2008, The Chancery Pavilion, Bangalore
[This article was published in the July 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Health insurance in India is increasingly getting refined and redefined, with a population of more than a billion people
Jharkhand plans e-health network
Patients in remote villages of Jharkhand will soon have access to specialists without having to travel long distances for an examination.
Himalaya Drug gets ready for rural play
Himalaya Drug Company is set for a bigger push into rural markets with the launch of a new strategic business unit (SBU) for expanding into smaller towns and hinterland districts.
