Officials Strive To Ease Registration Process for EHR Incentive Payments

CMS aims to expand its Medicare provider enrollment system to ease the registration process for physicians looking to qualify for health IT incentive payments.

Med-e-Tel 2010 – Annual, international Telemedicine and eHealth Forum taking place on 14-16 April 2010 in Luxembourg

The 8th edition of Med-e-Tel, the International eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT Forum, will take place on 14-16 April 2010 at Luxexpo, the Luxembourg Exhibition and Congress Center.

Patient Care at Hospitals Redefined through Process Optimization : Tajinder Vohra, Genpact, India

One of the leaders in managing business processes, Genpact offers a broad portfolio of enterprise G&A and industry-specific services, coupled with strong IT, analytics and reengineering capabilities.

40 Issues Young!

[This article was published in the March 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

With the successful completion of 40th issue, eHEALTH magazine has reached one more milestone in its journey of propagating knowledge in the domain of healthcare IT and medical technologies.

Obama’s stimulus to health technology and job training

Barack Obama’s Cabinet has announced n $1 billion in grants to increase the use of health information technology, pushing for healthcare overhaul and job creation.

1st International Conference on Transforming Healthcare with Information Technology

The First Conference on ‘Transforming Healthcare with IT- 2010’ will be a comprehensive discussion on the adoption of Healthcare IT and industry best practices for enhanced operational efficiencies and patient care.

US Unveils Standards to Boost e-Health Records

US health officials have released standards for electronic medical records to spur the development of the technology, with hopes of cutting health costs and reducing medical errors.

“Carestream is the only company in India offering a complete range of medical imaging products” : Prabir Chatterjee, Carestream Health India Pvt. Ltd.

In conversation with eHEALTH, Prabir Chatterjee, MD of Carestream Health India Pvt. Ltd., provides insight into the company’s business operations in India and provides an overview of the overall medical imaging market.

“Business technology will become a key enabler for healthcare organisations” : Girish Kumar, Hewlett Packard

Girish Kumar, Practice Head of the Healthcare and Lifesciences division at HP provides key insights into the business of HP in the healthcare space.

“Wipro HIS product is under implementation in government sector projects such as ESIC” : Harbir Sawhney, Wipro HealthCare IT

Harbir Sawhney, General Manager of Health-IT division of Wipro, shares his perspectives on the health IT scenario and Wipro’s initiatives in this space.

iSOFT Launches New Aged and Community Care IT Solution

iSOFT has announced the launch of iSOFT Aged Care – Enterprise Wide Health (EWH), an integrated management solution for aged and community care organisations.

SAP and Siemens Sign Global Reseller Agreement

Siemens Healthcare and SAP AG have signed an agreement whereby SAP will resell in selected target markets the Siemens Healthcare hospital information system (HIS) i.s.h.med – a leading health information system for the clinical setting that helps healthcare providers improve efficiencies, contributing to improved patient care and the management information system i.c.m.health.

Vodafone to Launch Mobile Health Unit

Vodafone has announced that it will establish a new mobile health unit in Newbury to develop mobile healthcare solutions.