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Former Wipro CIO Laxman K. Badiga Joins Anthelio Healthcare Solutions as Chief Operating Officer
Anthelio, the leading independent provider of comprehensive healthcare information technology (IT) services and business process solutions for hospitals and other healthcare providers, today announced that Laxman K. Badiga has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer.
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Ghana to get a healthy fillip Recently the government of Ghana received an approval of funding from the World Bank […]
Innovations for Change
[This article was published in the August 2011 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org) ] Healthcare has emerged as one of the most progressive and largest service sectors in India with an expected GDP spend of 8 percent by 2012. The Indian healthcare sector is expected to become a US $280 billion industry by 2020 with spending on health estimated to grow 14 percent annually.
Chips provide a leg-up to revolutionise healthcare
Research is on to implant semicon chips in the retinas of people suffering from total blindness. A fair degree of success has been attained, as 7-8 implants have already been done in patients and partial vision restored.
Shortage of specialists prompting hospitals to adopt eICU technology
A nationwide shortage of critical care specialists has prompted more than three dozen US hospital systems to implement electronic intensive care units, or eICUs, which use telehealth technology to connect remote doctors with critically ill patients.
Mobile medical applications under FDA scrutiny
Health tools for smart phones that monitor blood sugar levels or work as stethoscopes may face the same scrutiny from regulators as heart stents or ultrasound machines.
Green issue is black and white: Prof. Bullard
According to Robert Bullard, a professor at Georgia’s Clark Atlanta University and the director of that university’s Environmental Justice Resource Center, it is always the poor and the vulnerable who reside near land fills and thus suffer from them. This has something to do with institutional racism since these people are minorities
Unraveling Brain Connections
A US$30 million project that will use cutting-edge brain imaging technologies to map the circuitry of the healthy adult human brain.
ICTs infrastructure in Africa
Level of poverty has remained very high in Africa in the past, and also the present. The 2006 report on the United Nation
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Fortis Healthcare plans to raise Fresh FundFortis Healthcare Ltd has lined up its fund-raising plans as it prepares for a […]
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HealthSprint eyes 100-fold growth in users Healthcare IT services company HealthSprint plans to expand its reach a 100-fold in 2 […]
