Balco to build INR 300 cr cancer hospital in Chhattisgarh
The Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco), which is a part of the Vedanta Group, will spend INR 300 crore in building a cancer hospital and research centre here, officials.
INDIA
Govt puts clinical research approvals on fast lane
The government has begun speeding up approvals in the area of clinical research which is set to boom in India, say top industry sources.
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.
AIIMS signs on Telecom Consultant for Africa project
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Telecommunication Consultant of India Limited (TCIL) for the latter’s Pan-African e-Network project.
Centre plans drug stores in all districts in India
The government has decided to set up a retail network of drug stores across the country in public-private partnership that would sell 350 essential medicines at half the rate of its branded substitute.
Idhasoft launches hospital management system
The USD 100 company aims to be amongst the top 50 IT company in the world, Idhasoft, an IT services company in healthcare space, has launched its iHMiS (Idhasoft Hospital Management System) product in Pune.
GE eyes acquisitions in India
General Electric Co (GE) is scouting for acquisitions to scale up its presence in India. The diversified engineering and services major is looking across a gamut of sectors for opportunities to acquire firms, especially the core infrastructure, healthcare and the media space.
IT can improve healthcare delivery say experts
There was a need to make the healthcare sector more IT-oriented, opined experts at a seminar on healthcare organised by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII).
Apollo plans to set up 250 speciality hospitals
In a move to reach out to smaller towns and cities in the country, Apollo Hospitals Group has chalked out a INR 10,000 crore investment plan to set up 250 small and medium sized multi-specialty hospitals aggregating to 31,250 beds over the next seven years.
MediAssist’s fixed reimbursement model with hospitals
In a bid to address the burgeoning cost of treatment, country’s largest third party administrator MediAssist will tie up with various hospitals for developing a fixed reimbursement model for most illnesses.
AHEL to set up 250
RG Stone Urology & Laparoscopy Hospital’s (RG) chain plans to grow its presence to 30 locations using the Department in Hospitals (DIH) route.
