BUSINESS NEWS
[This article was published in the March 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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HEALTH
Arizona takes a step ahead in health informatics
The state of Arizona, US is making significant inroads into e-Health, more specifically into health informatics.
BUSINESS NEWS
[This article was published in the February 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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MAKING AUSTRALIA E-HEALTH AWARE
[This article was published in the February 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The Consumers� Health Forum of Australia Inc (CHF) is the national voice of Australia for its health consumers.
Free maternal healthcare scheme launched in North India
A scheme titled Coupon Lao; Sehat Pao was launched on 24th January 2007 in seven blocks of Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India that will provide free maternal healthcare benefits and pre-pregnancy care to an estimated 8,000 women.
e-Health: An answer to the depressing healthcare scenario
[This article was published in the January 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Editorial
A MEET OF GREAT BELIEF
[This article was published in the January 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The aim of this first of its kind event was to exchange information and views on how eInfrastructures are currently deployed in both Europe and India, with the objective of analysing how their increasing role is viewed in a business, educational, socio-political and scientific context.
WORLD NEWS
[This article was published in the January 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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BP, Intel, Wal-Mart to launch electronic medical record system
Applied Materials Inc., British Petroleum America Inc., Intel Corp., Pitney Bowes Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., are funding a nonprofit institute to develop “Dossia”, a Web-based electronic health record system, which can be used for storing health information of 2.5 million employees and departments.
Visually impaired student develops software for blind
A visually impaired student has developed Brailleface, software, which converts Braille commands into Devanagari script on the computer screen.
NASCIO releases State Health IT Initiatives
NASCIO announced about the release of the compendium, Profiles of Progress: State Health IT Initiatives.
CQU supports Chile for e-Health scheme
The South American nation of Chile will get an improved health system with the help from Central Queensland University’s (CQU) health informatics faculty.
Future of e-health in India is bright : Dr. Shashi Gogia, President, Indian Association for Medical Informatics, India
“The biggest advantage, which has been in favour of
e-Health in our country is that now, the Ministry of Health has started taking an active part. The Ministry of Health has taken the initiative of setting up a task force for telemedicine, which is an advisory body”, says Dr. Shashi Gogia, President, Indian Association for Medical Informatics, or IAMI, engaged in promoting application of informatics in the fields of healthcare, bioscience and medicine in India, in an interview with Sanjeev Shrivastav of eHealth
