Fortis expanding Escorts as separate unit

Hospital chain Fortis Healthcare is expanding its flagship cardiac hospital brand Escorts Heart Institutes’ as a separate unit within its newly acquired hospitals.

Unilabs buys Belgian teleradilology firm

Unilabs says the acquisition will enable it to develop teleradiology services on a pan-European basis. At present EuradConsult carries out around 40,000 teleradiology MRI reports a year.

Leading US health web sites merge

The number two and three US health website networks are to merge to take on the might of market leader WebMD.

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[This article was published in the July 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

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HealthSprint eyes 100 fold growth in number of users

Healthcare IT services company HealthSprint plans to expand its reach a hundred-fold in two years to five lakh patients a month and take ehealth services to rural areas in tie-ups with microinsurance providers.

Online medical information exchange launched

A verified, physicians-only online information exchange, www.ozmosis.com, dedicated to the discovery and sharing of medical knowledge and the improvement of patient care has been launched.

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[This article was published in the May 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

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