NEWS REVIEW – INDIA
[This article was published in the February 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
NEWS REVIEW
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Patients get POWERFUL – eHEALTH Team
[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
Two pharmacy PHR projects launched in Germany
Two new pilots are underway to offer pharmacy personal health records (PHRs) in Germany. Both are based on a PHR including details of current medication and offer patients the potential to offer prescription ordering online.
India and France to cooperate in the health sector
Union Health Minister, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, currently on an official visit to France, discussed cooperation in certain fields such as Medical Research, Biotechnology, Development of vaccine, Promotion of Indian Systems of medicines and cooperation between ICMR and INSERM of France
PREMIUM PRODUCTS – Health Insurance : Ivan Chak, Head, Life Profit Centre and Accident & Health division, Tata AIG Life Insurance Company Ltd.
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.
Developing nations will lobby for research funds for TB, malaria
India and other developing countries are set to lobby hard for funding mechanisms to develop medicines,
mostly aimed at neglected diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, at a forum set up by the World Health Organization or WHO. Developed countries have long maintained that patents are sufficient incentive for innovation.
India’s Drug Regulatory Authority to be based on US FDA Model
In the next three years, India would move towards setting up a drug regulatory authority on the model of the US FDA, the country
SMB hospitals are more challenging than the larger hospitals : Dinesh Samudra, Director and COO, SEED Healthcare Solutions’
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.
