Healthcare to attract USD 500 mn PE funding in 3 yrs
The country’s healthcare segment is likely to attract private equity funding to the tune of USD 500 million in the next three years.
The country’s healthcare segment is likely to attract private equity funding to the tune of USD 500 million in the next three years.
Technology solutions major Hewlett-Packard has set a target of signing up with about 2,000 small and medium-sized hospitals in the country by the end of the current fiscal.
Owing to the marked changes over the past few years in the healthcare sector, there is a growing demand for quality healthcare services, which calls for a closer look at the healthcare delivery systems and the necessity to introduce quality assurance mechanisms.
[This article was published in the August 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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[This article was published in the August 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Increasingly clinical trials are coming under the regulatory lense because of lack of necessary accounting of the patient and drug effects information. The following article takes a look at the new trends in electronic data capture that help track the data better.
GE Healthcare and Gujarat Imaging Centre (GIC), which launched the State
[This article was published in the July 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Preparations for eHEALTH India 2008 are on at full throttle. And the huge interest in this unique platform for the Health IT community
Private equity (PE) giant Texas Pacific Group (TPG)-controlled Parkway Hospital in Singapore is leading the race to acquire 25-30% stake in Bangalore-headquartered Manipal Hospital for over INR 500 crore, sources said.
US-based healthcare information technology services firm Eclipsys has set up its second India unit in Pune to support its cleint base in Europe, US and Australia.
Chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad recently invited Indian corporate healthcare giants to construct hospitals in rural areas, and offered them land to be provided free by the government. The CM vowed to strengthen peripheral health institutions of state and lessen the patient burden on tertiary hospitals in the city.
India’s public healthcare is in “serious decline” due to non-availability of medical and paramedical staff, diagnostic services and medicines, says a Planning Commission report.
[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The Indian healthcare sector is on a high-growth trajectory propelled by unparalleled domestic growth, increasing public awareness and growing global interest in India�s delivery capabilities.