The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu discusses eHealth as “the great equalizer” and its ability to improve the human condition at the Global Ministerial Forum for Research on Health in Bamako, Mali. This is in continuation to the Rockefeller Foundation sponsored conference series at its Bellagio Center from
July 12-August 8, 2008, titled
Fifth consecutive acquisition of Philips Healthcare in emerging markets
since mid-2007 and the second acquisition in India within the last three months.
The government is set to introduce Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a visionary national health insurance scheme, which provides INR 30,000
Medical imaging specialist Barco has released a new version of its Voxar 3D advanced visualization software suite that is integrated in Agfa
The European Commission telemedicine communication aims to increase and broaden telemedicine services, including diagnosis, treatment and monitoring at a distance across Europe.
Clinical telephone triage software specialist Clinical has announced a partnership with Health Language Inc. (HLI), the US-based supplier of language engine technology for medical vocabulary.
InterSystems Corporation recently announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has renewed a contract for Four Points Technology, LLC to provide the InterSystems CACHÉ® high-performance object database for the VistA electronic health record (EHR) system.
Trivitron Group of companies, the largest player of Indian origin in the Medical Technology Industry, has announced an exclusive distribution agreement with Boston Scientific Corp, one of the largest medical devices company worldwide.
Wockhardt group will invest INR 1,000 crore in the next three years for expanding its healthcare infrastructure.
Health-care providers of all stripes face a host of technology challenges in the new year. Indeed, “the tea leaves are not settled at the bottom of the cup yet, but [providers] are already expected to budget for 2009, 2010 and beyond,” said Bob Booz, managing vice president for Gartner Research, at a kick-off town hall at Everything Channel’s Healthcare Summit in San Diego.
WebMD Health Corp. announced the honorees of the 2008 WebMD Health Heroes awards, featured in the November/December issue of WebMD the Magazine.
Perot Systems will significantly bolster its health-care interests after acquiring Tellurian Networks, a managed services provider of electronic medical records (EMR) and practice management (PM) applications.
Patients living in remote areas or suffering from chronic diseases that need continuous monitoring should have better access to medical treatment delivered, for example, over the internet, the European Commission said.
