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.
[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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US-based Polycom Inc, which provides a range of communications equipment enabling enterprise users to conduct video, voice, data and web communications, is focussing on South India for growth with the company witnessing demand for its products from state governments, tele-medicine and tele-education projects.
Global financial institutions American International Group (AIG) and J P Morgan are reportedly to invest a total of INR 400 crore in Bangalore based Narayana Hrudayalaya for a 25 per cent stake in this cardiac hospital chain, valuing it at INR 1,600 crore.
Telemedicine might become one of the priority trends in healthcare development in Russia. In the year 2008 a range of
large telemedicine projects is expected to be implemented. According to specialists, the given sector will develop in Russia not only due to the state initiative, but thanks to attracting private investment.
Fortis Healthcare is considered to have one of the best IT infrastructure among healthcare providers in India and is proud of being the pioneer in deploying Web-based HIS system.
Information and communication technologies (ICT) have been recognised in the past decades as an essential tool for the scientific, economic and social development of a country.
NIMHANS, Bangalore and Mysore based KR Hospital has established connectivity for their telemedcine project in collaboration with Larsen & Toubro Ltd in Bangalore.
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
As the health care system continues to change and adapt to the new realities associated with finance and management restructuring, the technological side of patient care also has changed. Telemedicine is the new buzz word in the constantly changing vocabulary of the health care system the world over.
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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A Federal Grant of up to 4.9 million will be used to build a broadband network linking about 96 rural and urban healthcare providers throughout Hawaii and the Pacific island region.
