IT@Hospital Survey
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
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 services accessed by rural poor
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.

Health in emergency to be on concurrent list
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.

New business models dot medical outsourcing
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.

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