Sysmex, the world leader in Haematology, in partnership with Transasia Bio-Medicals introduce the XT-1800i V & XT-2000i V (Veterinary mode), a fully automated Haematology analyzer for High Quality Animal Blood testing.
The mass purchase of medical equipment for JJ Hospital’s INR 120-crore upgradation plan has run into trouble, with some companies questioning the tender process followed by the state government.
The Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco), which is a part of the Vedanta Group, will spend INR 300 crore in building a cancer hospital and research centre here, officials.
Health service provider Apollo Group and Indira Gandhi National Open University recently signed a memorandum of understanding to launch 45 medicine-related courses in four verticals from January next year.
The government has begun speeding up approvals in the area of clinical research which is set to boom in India, say top industry sources.
The dry run of the initial INR 5 crore EMR (Electronic Medical Record) system by Apollo in association with 40-odd hospitals in south India and networking of 2 lakh doctors will be done by October of this year.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Telecommunication Consultant of India Limited (TCIL) for the latter’s Pan-African e-Network project.
The Vodafone Espana Foundation, the Spanish Red Cross and Qualcomm, have joined together to launch a project using 3G broadband technology to trial new ways of connecting elderly people in Spain to their family and friends.
The government has decided to set up a retail network of drug stores across the country in public-private partnership that would sell 350 essential medicines at half the rate of its branded substitute.
US company Epocrates has produced a free downloadable medicines guide for the iPhone. In the first month of availability, the Epocrates Rx drug and formulary software was downloaded by more than 125,000 users, including 25,000 US doctors.
The Government-run Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is planning to extend its telemedicine project with Bandra-based Lilavati hospital. ONGC is also planning to incorporate the project to cover all the rigs and platforms at Bombay High Offshore.
GE Healthcare and Varian, Inc. announced that they will begin a collaboration to develop a new pre-clinical 7T magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system.
In Holland all child healthcare providers will have to introduce electronic patient records by the end of 2009.
