ICICI Venture to raise healthcare corpus, buy into more hospitals

Leading private equity (PE) firm ICICI Venture is betting big on the country

Novel wireless application goes live

InfoLogix has announced that the first successful implementation in the US of a mobile wireless application for the healthcare industry is now being used to scan and track its inventory of more than 10,000 medical, research and scientific devices, located in 55 buildings throughout the Texas Medical Centre and the city of Houston.

Spearheading Innovation : Dr. Biswadip Mitra, Texas Instruments (India), India

Dr. Biswadip (Bobby) Mitra has been with Texas Instruments for over 20 years and is the Managing Director of Texas Instruments (India).

Fortis plans hospital in Hyderbad

Hospital chain Fortis is looking to expand its presence by setting up a hospital in Hyderabad and would take the inorganic route for growth there.

In sickness and in health!

[This article was published in the October 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

The health care industry needs trained human resources to handle IT applications. This eHealth issue focuses on the human resource needs of the health industry.

Requirements of Quality in Hospital Information System : Harpreet Singh, Chief utive Officer, Oxyent Technologies & Oxyent Medical Pvt.Ltd.India

[This article was published in the October 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Improving Hospital Information System is very important to facilitate better health care. This article looks at the various aspects of Hospital Information System or the Clinical Information system.

Moving On..The United States of America adopts ICD-10 codes

[This article was published in the October 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

This article talks about the tenth version of International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD – 10) and its adoption by US.

Ericsson, UN to bring telemedicine to Africa

Ericsson is joining forces with the United Nations Office for partnerships to use telecommunications to bring mobile-health applications and services (m-health) and telemedicine to rural Africa.

GE announces healthcare initiatives

GE Healthcare, the USD 17 billion healthcare business of General Electric Company, today announced healthcare initiatives targetted at early health care in the country, including a tie up with four partners.

Star Hospitals and Star Health Insurers to work together

Star Hospitals.net, a North American healthcare facilitator, is partnering India’s first stand-alone health insurance company, Star Health and Allied InsuranceCompany, Ltd.

Apollo Hospitals to set up 250 small health centres

The Tamil Nadu-based Apollo Hospitals group will set up 250 small hospitals across the country including the north-east by 2013, a senior company official revealed recently.

Apollo

The dry run of the initial INR 5 crore EMR (Electronic Medical Record) system by Apollo in association with 40-odd hospitals in south India and networking of 2 lakh doctors will be done by October of this year.

HIMSS investigates global EHR implementation

Recognising common threads that affect all EHR implementations in 15 countries, the Global Enterprise Task Force of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has released the white paper Electronic Health Records: A Global Perspective.