iSOFT Group has announced that it has won a USD 1 million contract with Advanced Medicare Research Institute (AMRI) Hospitals for an electronic health record (EHR) for six of its hospitals in India, after a competitive tender.
In conversation with Divya Chawla from eHEALTH, Ashit Panjwani, utive Director – Marketing, Sales & Alliances, SAS Institute (India) Pvt Ltd, shares insights into the business of health and life sciences vertical of SAS.
Moolchand Medcity has recently tied up with Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in providing Diploma and Bachelor courses for paramedical professionals.
Addressing to healthcare in Kerala is just a SMS away, now. According to Dr Rathan U Kelkar, Director, Kerala State Information Technology Mission (KSITM), the state has introduced Dr SMS, which is a free service that makes health facilities, available to people through the use of mobile. KSITM is an autonomous body which implements e-governance projects for the state government.
Nova Medical Centres, incubated by GTI, the specialised day care surgery centre, has completed its second round of private equity funding by raising the capital required for its Rs 250-crore project.
CareFusion and Cerner Corporation have entered into an agreement to integrate their technologies to close the current communication gap between healthcare devices and information technology.
iSOFT Group Limited, one of the world’s largest healthcare information technology companies, has entered into a partnership with Gateway Computing Ltd to deliver an electronic document management solution (EDMS) to the NHS, called WinDIP Enterprise.
The American Hospital Association is rallying for rapid uptake of healthcare information technology in one of 12 issue papers it released recently in advance of its annual meeting April 25-28 in Washington.
A new hospital recently opened in Botswana is being touted as a paperless hospital without borders. Bokamoso Private Hospital, a 200-bed, state-of-the-art specialty hospital that opened in January, is allowing patients to stay in the country for the medical care they need, said officials.
Launch and the Curtain Raiser of eINDIA 2010, India’s Largest ICT event, took place in New Delhi at The Claridges, witnessing presence of many distinguished guests.
The basic diagnostic tool for heart attack patients is an Electro cardiogram. ECG detects that patient has suffered a heart attack or not besides this it is very useful tool for surveillance following heart attack, coronary bypass surgery or balloon angioplasty.
Healthline Networks and Yahoo have announced a partnership in which Healthline’s proprietary semantic taxonomy will drive the health-specific search and navigation on the Yahoo site.
[This article was published in the April 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
A post-show report of the first International Conference on transforming healthcare with information technology organised by the Apollo Group during March 8-10, 2010 in New Delhi.
