Medtronic, a US-based medical technology service provider, opened its first therapy and procedure training centre (TPTC) in South Asia, in Chennai recently, giving India it’s first training centre for doctors to learn how to place implants in the heart.
Royal Philips Electronics, of the Netherlands is a diversified health and well-being company, has supported a research project that shows heart failure patients who used an interactive tele-health system with motivational support tools at home spent less time in hospital and felt their quality of life had significantly improved over 12 months uation period.
New products help ensure effective therapy delivery even for patients with high defibrillation thresholds, provide additional disease management monitors for heart failure patients or patients at risk for sudden cardiac arrest and can be implanted through a smaller incision due to reduced size.
A new study from University of Missouri has revealed that increased telehealth interaction between patients and health care provider can significantly reduce the need for hospitalisation.
An implantable device that monitors fluid build up in the lungs of heart failure patients and alerts doctors when intervention is needed can significantly reduce hospitalisations, according to a study published in The Lancet.
A revolutionary healthcare system is being introduced in Bexley to help patients manage their long term health condition at home. Working with Tunstall Healthcare’s new ICP (integrated care platform)
[This article was published in the June 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
News Review : June 2010
GE Healthcare, the healthcare business of GE (NYSE: GE) and CardioDx, a pioneer in cardiovascular genomic diagnostics, announced to have entered into a strategic alliance to advance and co-develop diagnostic technologies to improve the care and management of patients with cardiovascular disease.
ProMRI Pacing Systems that are compatible with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans -Evia pacemaker series and Safio Spacing leads – have received European approval.
GE Healthcare and Intel Corporation have expanded their sales and marketing agreement for the Intel Health Guide to include the United Kingdom.
Continuing with effort to educate and inform the medical fraternity, Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre Ltd. (EHIRCL), commissioned a two-day Cardiac seminar.
[This article was published in the April 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, time stays, we go � Henry Austin Dobson
Next time a Baby Noor of Pakistan needs an advanced heart surgery, she might pick Ahmedabad instead of Bangalore.
