Easy access to visa facilities permitted by India to overseas patients coupled with the best emerging medical infrastructure in large and tertiary towns will make the country earn to an extent of INR 8,000 crore in foreign exchange by 2012, a new study has said.
Karishma Software Ltd., is a winner of IBM Global Public Sector Top Star award for 2008, announced recently. The Indian company is one of five Business Partners recognized with this prestigious award by the Global Healthcare & Life Sciences industry.
India’s largest hospital and pharmacy chain, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd, is planning to set up hospitals in African countries, Chairman Prathap Reddy said recently.
India’s growing reputation as a major medical tourism destination is attracting more and more visitors from Gulf countries. And many travel agents are now offering packages combining treatment with a vacation.
The British entrepreneur who sold a soccer Web site at the age of 17 for US$ 40 million has switched his attention to help launch a social networking site designed to fight malaria.
Tatanet, a division of NELCO Ltd, has announced that it has received a multi-million dollar order for supply of Satcom equipment from Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) for a e-Network project providing telemedicine.
Linked by a high-speed Internet connection, the doctors in Care Hospital in Hyderabad, India, study X-rays and laboratory results being transmitted by doctors from Black Lion Hospital in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Flipping between charts, they use light pens to point out important features. They can see each other in windows on their screens, while medical charts fill the rest of the display.
[This article was published in the March 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
CII Northern Region Headquarters recently organised a one and half day conference on medical value tourism, between 7-8 February 2008 at the impressive office premises of its headquarters in Chandigarh.
India and other developing countries are set to lobby hard for funding mechanisms to develop medicines,
mostly aimed at neglected diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, at a forum set up by the World Health Organization or WHO. Developed countries have long maintained that patents are sufficient incentive for innovation.
[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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The International Health Advisory Board of British Telecommunications plc (BT), comprising leaders in healthcare and public policy from around the globe, has been in discussions with key decision-makers of the Qatar business community how BT could help develop and advance healthcare information systems in Qatar, as well as examining other opportunities in the region.
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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Ranbaxy Laboratories may dilute up to 60% stake in its new research company, which will be formed by hiving off its R&D unit into a separate entity in 2008.
