Satyam Computer Services Ltd, a global consulting and information technology services provider, and GE Healthcare, have announced a comprehensive agreement to support customers deploying healthcare IT solutions based on GE Centricity Enterprise software.
IBA Health Group Limited- Australia’s largest listed health information technology company has announced two additional Australian private health insurance funds will connect to its expanding eHealth network for real-time, point-of-care electronic health claiming and payment services.
The Directorate of Medical Education is focussing on adopting e-governance to make outpatient registration, consultation and prescribing of medicines smooth in all medical college hospitals in the State.
Australia’s largest listed health information technology company announced that the largest provider of independent healthcare services in the UK, General Healthcare Group (GHG) has appointed iSOFT as a strategic health information technology partner.
Amid tough price regulation and hectic discussions to finalise a new drug pricing policy by the department of chemicals and petrochemicals, the government has decided to carve out a new department of pharmaceuticals from it. The proposed new department will function as a new entity under the ministry of chemicals and fertilizers along with the other two departments governing fertilizers and chemicals and petrochemicals.
The Apollo Hospitals has formulated a comprehensive policy to take quality medical care to the doorsteps of the people in Tier-II and tier-III cities, a top official of the hospital said.
DataCore Software, a provider of storage virtualisation SAN software, has announced that St Marien Amberg Hospital, a German teaching hospital, has implemented SANmelody to support its information systems and PACS (picture archiving and communication system) project running on a VMware environment.
Global information technology giant Satyam Computer Services recently announced setting up of its Life Sciences Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Hyderabad.
A partnership between Google and Quest Diagnostics Inc., will allow patients to view their diagnostic laboratory testing information electronically.
Global Med Technologies Inc., an international e-Health, medical information technology company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted 510(k) clearance for ElDorado Donor(TM) a new blood management product produced by its Wyndgate Technologies(R) division (“Wyndgate”).
Sobha Renaissance Information Technology (SRIT) has been conferred 2nd position for its joint venture
[This article was published in the February 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The multi-stakeholder, non-profit eHealth Initiative (eHI) recently released the results of its Fourth Annual Survey (2007)of Health Information Exchange at the State, Regional and Community Levels in the United States of America, taking stock of 130 community-based health information exchange initiatives. We seek to take stock of the situation as it now appears in the US, and what kind of learning it proposes to the rest of the world.
