Rockland Hospitals, a multi-speciality hospital offering health care services with its main branch in New Delhi is planning expansion in Tier-II and Tier-III cities in Northern India like Lucknow, Jaipur, Agra, etc., next year.
Representatives of international and regional e-health advocacy groups are meeting at the Wellcome Trust in London this week to agree plans for building
Sunquest Information Systems, the US specialist in laboratory and diagnostic information systems, has completed the acquisition of Anglia Healthcare Systems.
Trivitron Group of companies, the largest player of Indian origin in the Medical Technology Industry, has announced an exclusive distribution agreement with Boston Scientific Corp, one of the largest medical devices company worldwide.
Health-care providers of all stripes face a host of technology challenges in the new year. Indeed, “the tea leaves are not settled at the bottom of the cup yet, but [providers] are already expected to budget for 2009, 2010 and beyond,” said Bob Booz, managing vice president for Gartner Research, at a kick-off town hall at Everything Channel’s Healthcare Summit in San Diego.
Tata Steel is hosting the 14th Lifeline Express at Nazareth Railway Station in Tuticorin district.
Recognising common threads that affect all EHR implementations in 15 countries, the Global Enterprise Task Force of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has released the white paper Electronic Health Records: A Global Perspective.
GE Healthcare and Varian, Inc. announced that they will begin a collaboration to develop a new pre-clinical 7T magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system.
[This article was published in the September 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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In a bid to help combat Malaria and other fatal diseases in India, World Bank has announced a USD 520 million scheme, the largest such project by the world body in any country.
Schiller India, a leading Swiss Joint Venture Company in the field of Medical Diagnostics, has launched a new multi-parameter monitor called Argus LCX which has a 15 inch LCD screen and a facility to transfer data through SD card.
TAKE Solutions announced recently that its worldwide business in regulatory document management and electronic submissions software arena is making quick inroads in the Indian market.
[This article was published in the July 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Health insurance in India is increasingly getting refined and redefined, with a population of more than a billion people
