After launching the first batch ‘Hospitals on Wheels’ in Guwahati, Kokrajhar programme has received its share of mobile healthcare facilities. Introduced under the National Rural Health Mission, the mobile medical units are equipped with X-Ray machines, a microscope, ECG machine, ultrasound, autoclaves, auto-analyser, stretchers and a pharmacy.
The Quality Council of India is seeking help from corporates for elevating quality standards in hospitals. It is planning to ask corporate houses to make quality certification mandatory before empanelling hospitals for providing medical benefits to their respective employees.
Three health information exchange projects in rural California are showing how such exchanges can boost healthcare services to underserved populations.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs in India has given its approval for setting up an integrated network of trauma centres along the Golden Quadrilateral, North-South and East-West Corridors of the National Highways.
A pharma packaging company Bilcare Research of Pune has launched a product to help check the menace of counterfeit drugs. The product has a label with a unique bar code made out of nanotechnology and fingerprinting.
The newest entrant in the Indian health insurance business, Apollo DKV Insurance Co., plans to sell health insurance, but it wants to help customers stay healthy through its
Telemedicine might become one of the priority trends in healthcare development in Russia. In the year 2008 a range of
large telemedicine projects is expected to be implemented. According to specialists, the given sector will develop in Russia not only due to the state initiative, but thanks to attracting private investment.
The government will allocate INR 1,360 billion (USD 34.50 billion) for healthcare in the 11th Five-Year Plan (2007-12), up from INR 450 billion in the previous plan, said Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss. He also said that the government will introduce a ‘health smart card’ under the National School Health Programme for every school-going child.
The Bangalore-based firm has finally received some recognition with the World Economic Forum (WEF) choosing it as one of the 39 technology pioneers from a list of 273 nominees. Neurosynaptics, the only company from India in a list dominated by 23 US firms, has been picked for its ReMeDi (Remote Medical Diagnostics) range of products.
Making appointments with doctors instantly online without any hassle is just one of the features that a recently launched web portal www.doctoratclick.com is promising users.
Fortis Healthcare is considered to have one of the best IT infrastructure among healthcare providers in India and is proud of being the pioneer in deploying Web-based HIS system.
Information and communication technologies (ICT) have been recognised in the past decades as an essential tool for the scientific, economic and social development of a country.
An application by AIIMS is being processed by the ministry of civil aviation and permission has been sought to construct a helipad. The service will be available at the AIIMS trauma centre which has been operational for the past 10 months.
