The largest health system in the Baltimore-Washington area, with 147,000 inpatient admissions and 1.5 million outpatient visits a year, has tapped Kansas City-based technology company Cerner to implement several Cerner Millennium applications throughout the healthcare system.
The second phase of the expansion of the telemedicine project in Punjab facilitates medical professionals sitting at distant places to receive data from the civil hospital related with diagnostic test reports, X-rays and other information.
In the short term perspective health insurance industry is expected to grow at a rate of 25% annually till 2010, while in the long term, it is expected to grow at a rate of 5% annually thereafter.
GE Healthcare, a leading provider of healthcare information technology solutions, announced a vendor-independent educational program, designed specifically for biomedical and technical professionals, to enhance their knowledge of IT concepts for healthcare.
SEED Healthcare Solutions� Director and COO, Dinesh Samudra, in conversation with eHEALTH shares his views on the challenges and opportunities of catering to the SMB segment.
[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org) ]
[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
�IT plays a crucial role in establishing a competitive advantage for hospitals looking to compete for the medical tourism dollar.�
The International Health Advisory Board of British Telecommunications plc (BT), comprising leaders in healthcare and public policy from around the globe, has been in discussions with key decision-makers of the Qatar business community how BT could help develop and advance healthcare information systems in Qatar, as well as examining other opportunities in the region.
Health insurer Cigna Corp. (CI) announced a definitive agreement to acquire Great-West Healthcare, the healthcare division of Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Co., for USD 1.5 billion in cash. Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance is a subsidiary of Canada-based financial services holding company Great-West Lifeco Inc.
Symantec Corp. has announced the Symantec Healthcare Provider Solution, a new solution, comprised of products, services and best practices to help healthcare providers protect and manage their critical infrastructure and ensure vital patient information is both protected and accessible.
The LORENZ Life Sciences Group announced recently that Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, located in Chennai, India has chosen docuBridge as its eCTD Publishing and Management solution.
IBA Health Limited, Australia’s largest stock exchange listed information technology company announced that IBA Health’s acquisition of iSOFT has now become effective after the final sanction by the High Court of Justice for England and Wales. The unification of these two health-focused organisations will create one of the world’s largest healthcare IT providers.
