The raging political firestorm over how to reform the US’s $2.5-trillion healthcare sector might seem to be of limited relevance to India. But for the Indian IT services sector, the Obama-led revolution might just present an exciting growth opportunity.
Patent expiry will be a major avenue of growth for the Indian pharmaceutical industry as products worth $235 billion are going off patent within horizon of five years (from 2009 to 2014).
Hyderabad-based information technology firm HealthHiway has raised $4 million in funding from Greylock Partners, a Silicon Valley-headquartered venture capital firm.
An announcement was made by SourceMedical, that the Vision Electronic Health Record (EHR) Compliance Guarantee Program, which assures that Vision EHR will be compliant with the forthcoming government issued ASC certification requirements.
Providing some proof, HealthPartners is advocating the health reform that electronic medical records can save health providers money.
According to a presidential health panel the government and health officials across the country are preparing for the the possibility that the H1N1 (swine) flu virus could affect half the US population.
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‘Wearable artificial kidney’ for dialysis patients has been devised by UCLA researchers, according to recent paper published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Kathleen Sebelius , Secretary Health and Human Services has announced more than $25.7 million in grants to increase and improve health and support services at the nation’s health centers.
The OnDemand AP(SM) solution by GHX is being used by a growing number of healthcare providers to automate and streamline their accounts payable processes, reducing invoice processing costs.
Dr. Anne Doig, President CMA, told that health-care change requires that doctors make their practices more efficient.
