IMA seeks subsidised loans for doctors
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has said that the government must provide support to doctors in the form of subsidised loan rates for purchasing equipment .
HEALTHCARE
CMPMedica, iSOFT sign global contract for drug information decision-support tools
CMPMedica, a division of United Business Media Limited, and healthcare IT sysytems supplier iSOFT, have signed a worldwide agreement to supply iSOFT with comprehensive evidence-based drug information.
Wellness at the Workplace : Dr. Paul Litchfield, British Telecom
The main role of Occupational Medicine is to provide health advice to organisations and stakeholders, to ensure high standards of health and safety at the workplace. The Chief Medical Officer at British Telecom, speaks about his work at the largest telecom company in the UK.
Networks… to grow with : Reynold O. Bryan, Jr., Global Healthcare Segment Leader, Extreme Networks
Healthcare is unique because of the nature of its core business of providing quality patient care, medication and related services to people of every age, race and gender, who are either sick presently or with a view to maintaining their health for the future.
On a mission to empower : Praveen Srivastava, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India
When NRHM was launched in April 2005, there were a number of separate programs for different areas such as TB, malaria, maternal and child health etc.
Intelligent Communication : Madhukar Saboo, Head – healthcare & Life Sciences vertical, Avaya GlobalConnect
[This article was published in the January 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
An integrated approach to IT and communication systems for better patient care and higher operational efficiencies is very much the need of the hour. This article looks at the importance of effective communication channels that can help in providing better health care facilities.
NRHM gets the IT edge – eHEALTH Bureau (Dipanjan Banerjee & Susan Thomas)
[This article was published in the January 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Improving health conditions in rural areas has always been the biggest challenge in India. eHealth tries to find out how the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) would impact rural health care in India.
Achieving the Vision of Connected Healthcare : Anantharaman S Iyer, Regional Director – India, InterSystems
[This article was published in the January 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Ready availability of correct information is very critical for the health care industry. eHealth looks at various advanced health care information system that can be of use in the health care industry.
Trending Enterprise Healthcare : Brian Cohen, Chief Technology Officer, iSOFT
[This article was published in the January 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The Chief Technology Officer of iSOFT tells us about LORENZO – The newly launched innovative service oriented software from iSOFT.
Arizona boosts health data system with SAS technology
The Arizona Health Query, a project designed to develop and maintain a community health data system for Arizona residents, is using analytics software to integrate and analyse healthcare records.
HL7 publishes draft PHR standards
The standardisation of Personal Health Records (PHRs) received a boost with the international healthcare IT standards body, Health Level Seven (HL7) publishing a Personal Health Record System Functional Model (PHR-S FM) as a draft standard for trial use.
KLAS announces top-performing software and services vendors for 2008
Market research firm KLAS has named Epic as the highest-performing healthcare vendor across all market segments in its annual rankings, which were released recently.
Commission sets out steps on patient safety
The European Commission has published proposals designed to improve patient safety and reduce the number of patients who suffer harm from the healthcare they received.
