“we are driving innovation by delivering authoritative content with cutting-edge technology” : Rohit Kumar, Managing Director,

By changing the way healthcare professionals access information, Elsevier is at the forefront of the drive to improve outcomes for patients and reduce healthcare costs. Rohit Kumar-Managing Director, Elsevier Health Sciences, South Asia, in an interaction with Dhirendra Pratap Singh, shared Elsevier’s initiatives in this space and threw light upon the role of ICT in streamlining medical information products and services. Excerpts:

Geography Plays Role in Colon Cancer

A research from UC Davis Cancer Center has revealed that a person screening for colon cancer often depends on where they live in addition to their race or ethnicity.

Nebraska starts work on US $18M network to connect rural hospitals

The Rural Nebraska Healthcare Network (RNHN), a consortium of nine rural hospitals and related clinics in western Nebraska, launched construction of an US $18M fiber optic medical network that aims at improving care throughout the Nebraska panhandle.

Small hospital with big IT agenda

Montgomery County Memorial Hospital, in the rolling hills of southwestern Iowa is among those making IT inroads.

IT expansion by Iowa for health information exchange

In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Mercy Medical Center is expanding its PatientKeeper platform to improve capacity for its health information exchange.

USA: FCC approves five telehealth networks development

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved $35.6 million to fund the development of five telehealth networks that will link rural hospitals in nine states.

New Age Healthcare – Information Assurance for All : Prof. K. Ganapathy, President – Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation & Ms. Aditi Ravindra, Biomedical Engineer – Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation

[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

With the rapid proliferation of hundreds of health information websites, e-health publications and commencement of use of electronic health records, we in India, are now in an era of information dissemination.