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With the world’s attention continuously focused on the Indian healthcare sector, and this market more dynamic than ever, it is essential for the industry to have an annual platform to recognise the exemplary work done by organisations and individuals for their significant contributions and achievements.
Mankind Pharma, a leading pharmaceutical company of India, strengthens it
Fortis Healthcare has signed an agreement with ‘Foundation Buntu’, a non profit organisation registered under the Government of Republic Of Burundi. Through this tie-up, Fortis Healthcare would serve patients who require care and treatment in Neurosciences, Oncology, Orthopedics & Cardiac Sciences, informed Fortis.
The European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) presented its Techno-College Innovation Award for 2010 to Siemens Healthcare for its development of the syngo Aortic ValveGuide software. The award celebrates innovations which represent advances in cardiac surgery. This is the first time that Siemens has won the award.
Lilly, a research based organisation of pharmaceutical products, honoured for contribution to Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by the International Chamber of Commerce, United Nations Development Program and International Business Leaders Forum.
Siemens Information Systems Ltd (SISL) announced the launch of its cutting-edge Soarian MedSuite hospital information system (HIS) for the first time in India. The implementation of this system has been successfully completed at S.L. Raheja Hospital in Mumbai, also a Fortis Healthcare associate.
There is an urgent need for atleast 500 medical colleges in India and that too in the next five years, urged the Medical Council of India (MCI). Further to that the MCI has also recommended that the proposed new medical colleges can be established now with a minimum requirement of only 10 acres of land and more than 250 students.
In a keynote speech entitled ‘Towards Next Generation Home Healthcare’, delivered at the 2010 Nikkei-Philips Symposium, Erik Sande, General Manager, Philips Home Monitoring, reconfirmed Philips
Dell Services has been signed up by eight healthcare organisations from across the private and public sectors reports media. Dell Services’ recently launched healthcare consulting division will take care of these responsibilities.
To increase the number of skilled workers in healthcare, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is working with the health department to train school dropouts to work in hospitals and for homecare, reports media.
Cholera and other water borne diseases, which have claimed 39 lives since August, have started infected more people in Orissa’s Rayagada district in the last few days, and triggered panic among the residents, media reports.
The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) has announced Medsynaptic Pvt Ltd, a pioneering and leading Teleradiology and PACS company from India, as one of the top 10 Information Technology startups for 2010 at the Delhi edition of the NASSCOM EMERGOUT Conclave 2010.
