[This article was published in the September 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The European Commission has recently published a new draft of interoperability guidelines setting out a roadmap to achieve interoperable electronic health records (EHR) across the continent by the middle of the next decade.
[This article was published in the September 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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Developer of global healthcare standards, Health Level Seven, has announced the release of Version 3 Normative Edition 2008, a globally-defined suite of specifications based on HL7
Clinical trial insurance products are now available in India and are being provided by lots of general insurers, including Bajaj Allianz, ICICI Lombard, Tata AIG, Oriental Insurance and New India Assurance, among others.
The Disease Management Association of India (DMAI), the non-profit organization recently formed to propagate disease management concept and tools all over the country, is planning to initiate a Chronic Care Professional (CCP) certification programme for doctors across specialties in India to bring excellence on par with the international standards.
Multi-speciality healthcare provider Global Hospitals Group will soon launch a hospital with 500 beds in Chennai.
To provide a user-friendly and rapid diagnostic method for detection of dengue infection, Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd has launched its brand new product, Erba Den-GO (CE marked).
[This article was published in the August 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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As Reliance ADA Group goes for a big push in the healthcare segment, group company Medybiz is finalising a disease management venture aimed at treating chronic ailments through health management strategies.
Tele-medicine services will become operational between India, Bhutan and Sri Lanka by this year end, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said recently.
[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.
[This article was published in the July 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The Indian medical fraternity, especially the unorganised private sector, has been over the years quite unconcerned about preservation of patient records.
In what analysts see as a major vote of confidence for the Turkish economy, General Electric (GE) has decided to move all managing operations in the eastern and African growth markets (EAGM) to İstanbul.
