Wipro Healthcare IT�s Head- Business Operations, Prasenjit Lahiri, in conversation with eHEALTH shares his views on the increasing IT adoption in healthcare facilities accross public and private sectors.
Filipino doctors have been extending their virtual healing hands to patients based in remote areas in the country.
[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
�It is the Health Care Facilitators who make all the difference from a good medical procedure output to a really memorable experience of a complete wellness journey�
[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.�
[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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The financially-weaker section of the society may hope to get better healthcare facilities from privately-run hospitals such as Escorts, Max and Apollo in the future. The government is planning to issue healthcare vouchers to the poor who could use it as a currency in private hospitals. Hospitals, in turn, may get full refund from either the government or accredited insurance companies.
The Government has recently introduced the Drugs and Cosmetics (Amendment) Bill, 2007 in order to facilitate setting up of a Central Drugs Authority and introduce centralized licensing for manufacture of drugs.
Three health information exchange projects in rural California are showing how such exchanges can boost healthcare services to underserved populations.
In an effort to control the quality of medicinal products, the government has brought out the Indian Pharmacopoeia, 2007, which lays down the standards for drugs produced or marketed in India.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs in India has given its approval for setting up an integrated network of trauma centres along the Golden Quadrilateral, North-South and East-West Corridors of the National Highways.
A pharma packaging company Bilcare Research of Pune has launched a product to help check the menace of counterfeit drugs. The product has a label with a unique bar code made out of nanotechnology and fingerprinting.
The Bangalore-based firm has finally received some recognition with the World Economic Forum (WEF) choosing it as one of the 39 technology pioneers from a list of 273 nominees. Neurosynaptics, the only company from India in a list dominated by 23 US firms, has been picked for its ReMeDi (Remote Medical Diagnostics) range of products.
US-based $23-billion diversified technology firm 3M is in talks with top domestic pharma companies to licence drug delivery technologies.
