Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, cardiac super-specialty hospital in Delhi, became the third hospital under the Fortis Healthcare umbrella to receive the NABH accreditation, the highest national recognition for quality patient care and safety, making Fortis Healthcare the hospital network with maximum number of NABH accreditations for its hospitals.
India’s leading healthcare services provider Max India Ltd said it has partnered with UK’s BUPA Finance Plc for setting up a health insurance company in India.
Riding on the healthcare boom in India, Institute of Clinical Research India (ICRI), India
The European remote patient monitoring market is growing but slowed by limited government reimbursement, reveals research from Frost & Sullivan.
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Software developer, Evaware has launched a new telehealth device, which wirelessly connects with its Project E-vita web-based electronic patient record, enabling clinicians to remotely monitor the vital signs of their home-based patients.
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and the UNAIDS, the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, are launching an unique partnership to halt and reverse the HIV epidemic in India.
Australia’s largest listed health information technology company announced that the largest provider of independent healthcare services in the UK, General Healthcare Group (GHG) has appointed iSOFT as a strategic health information technology partner.
The Delhi government will soon launch emergency medical services in partnership with private medicare companies. The state government would create a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for the purpose.
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.
The Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a multi-million-pound agreement to use Cisco technology to provide a state-of-the-art network infrastructure across the network of hospitals.
Microsoft has announced the European launch of its Amalga enterprise unified business intelligence (UBI) product for the health sector.
