Stressing the need for better healthcare facilities in rural India, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has said the country will spend two per cent of its GDP on health in the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-12).
The Indian private health industry is entering into partnerships with state governments to offer low-cost healthcare to masses. Healthcare giants such as the Apollo Group and Wockhardt Hospitals are among those entering into partnerships with various state governments to provide these services.
Keen to take advantage of low-cost healthcare in India, US insurance firms are drawing up attractive medical tourism packages with Indian hospitals to facilitate travel and treatment for its citizens there.
[This article was published in the October 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Asian healthcare IT market is sizzling. Big investments are pouring in and much more is yet to come.
[This article was published in the October 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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The Delhi Cabinet on 24 eptember, 2007 gave its nod for establishment of an Indian Institute of Public Health, which would provide a sustainable response to the severe shortfall of public health professionals.
A Rs1,500 crore project, the first major government investment for healthcare will kick off in the first week of October with the opening of architecture and design tenders for six hospital projects.
[This article was published in the September 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Quality of public health and availability of proper healthcare amenities are one of the prime yardsticks for estimating the level of development and well being of any country or society.
[This article was published in the September 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The article briefly describes the status of
health and health infrastructure in India and also tries to discuss governance issues involved in delivery of public health care.
[This article was published in the September 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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[This article was published in the August 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
By the application of e-Health, knowledge or information pertaining to a quality and sophisticated healthcare system can be made accessible to remote corners of India, where only rudimentary health infrastructure is available.
[This article was published in the July 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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[This article was published in the July 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Microsoft Corporation and US Agency for International Development (USAID)recently came together to organise a seminar, focusing on the potential of IT in public healthcare.
