Nine hospitals on railway land in Bengal
Nine multi-specialty hospitals and medical colleges are going to be set up on vacant railway land in West Bengal.
25,000 Indian-origin British doctors to return to India
Nearly 25,000 British doctors of Indian origin are set to return to India within two to four years to join the seven AIIMS-like institutions proposed to be set up by the central government.
Railways to Set up 18 Medical, 7 Nursing Colleges
The Indian railways is looking to greatly improve its medical facilities by using the public-private partnership model. It proposes to establish 18 medical colleges attached to existing railway hospitals through PPP.
Appraising Telemedicine Case studies Lessons and Challenges : Lieutenant Colonel Salil Garg Cardiologist, Command Hospital, Pune and Squadron Leader Mudit Mathur, DD Space Ops, DSCC, Bhopal
[This article was published in the April 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, time stays, we go � Henry Austin Dobson
IT@Hospital Survey
[This article was published in the December 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Information and communications technologies (ICTs) can play a critical role in improving health care for individuals and communities.
Eye in the sky
[This article was published in the December 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Technology can be seductive, particularly in healthcare. Unfortunately, all too often the focus of programs and �research� becomes the technology itself rather than the outcome. Informatics based early warning systems for epidemics are a step in the right direction.
IT @ Hospital Survey 2008 Part 3 – South and Central India
[This article was published in the November 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
lT hospital survey reveals some very important facts on the health care facilities vailable in various states of India.
IT services accessed by rural poor
The Common Service Centres are ICT-enabled Kiosks having a PC along with basic support equipment like Printer, Scanner, UPS, with Wireless Connectivity as the backbone and additional equipment for edutainment, telemedicine, projection systems, etc.
NEWS REVIEW – BUSINESS
[This article was published in the August 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Business News
Health in emergency to be on concurrent list
The Health Ministry is working on a Bill which, if all goes to plan, will place public health in times of natural disasters, epidemic outbreaks and acts of terror in the Concurrent List before the end of this year, giving the Centre the power to independently promulgate laws and lay down rules. Public health is so far a state subject, exclusively in the domain of state governments.
Neon Healthcare ties with US based Hayes Lab
Neon Healthcare and Research Institute Ltd of India has signed an agreement with US-based pathological lab Hayes Lab for outsourcing in the healthcare space.
New business models dot medical outsourcing
Indian hospitals are upping the ante on outsourcing. Instead of making heavy capital investments on expensive diagnostic equipment, costing INR 1.5 to INR 5 crore for MRI & CT scans, hospitals are opting for newer pay-per-use and outsourced models.
