Web search company Google Inc is collaborating with Cleveland Clinic, one of the premier U.S. health institutions, to pilot an exchange of data that puts patients in charge of their own medical records.
XTend Medical Corporation announced recently that the company has begun a remote diabetic monitoring program with a target of 500 patients to be part of the initial program.
Royal Philips Electronics has announced that it will lead a new European Union (EU) funded research project aimed at improving care of heart patients through the development of innovative telemonitoring solutions.
New computer software that enables GPs to more accurately assess which patients are most at risk of developing heart disease has been released for clinical use.
CLINICARE Corporation of Calgary recently announced that it has been selected by the Barrie and Community Family Health Team to implement their OntarioMD approved Clinical Management Solution (CMS).
Since the dawn of e-mail, patients have been pleading for more doctors to offer medical advice online. No traffic jams, no long waits, no germ-infested offices. There was always one major roadblock: Many health insurers wouldn’t pay for it.
Quintiles Transnational Corp. has announced that its central laboratory in India has been certified by the College of American Pathologists (CAP).
As the kidney racket throws light on illegal clinics running across the country, the Centre issued a statement saying it would soon bring in a law to regulate both private and public clinics.
Satyam Computer Services Ltd recently announced that its global healthcare practice, working with the Byrraju Foundation, has implemented a program to provide tele-electrocardiograms (ECGs) to patients in remote areas of the country who would otherwise have no access to such care.
New guidelines, issued by the Department of Health, call for more partnerships between the NHS and drug companies, stressing they should be “of mutual benefit with the principal beneficiary being the patient”.
[This article was published in the February 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
In a recent ruling of the Supreme Court, prior consent of patients have been made mandatory for all surgical procedures, unless in critical medical conditions
[This article was published in the February 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
GE Healthcare�s new Tejas XR 6000 high frequency X-ray promises to reduce the cost of direct digital X-ray systems to half of the price at which they are currently imported into India.
[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.
