“Tele-health is being viewed as a distinct service, as a subspecialty” : Prof K Ganapathy, President – Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation

Prof K Ganapathy, President, Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation and Telemedicine Society of India, and President Elect, Indian Society for Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery, is a pioneer in introducing telemedicine in India. A renowned neurosurgeon, Dr Ganapathy has initiated pilot projects in using wireless telemedicine in several rural areas in India.

India to study neurological impairment of HIV infected

If studies in the West talk of NeuroAIDS and how the virus can sneak into the brain to cause dementia, back home in Pune, experts at the National AIDS Research Institute (NARI) have planned an ambitious study to find the prence of neurocognitive impairment in HIV infected individuals.

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[This article was published in the June 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

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Slovenia rolls out e-health insurance card system

The Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia (HIIS) has decided to roll out a new electronic health insurance card project to streamline the patients’ claims processing system. The new system enables healthcare providers to instantly and accurately check a patient’s health insurance status and allows for health claims to be processed online.