West Bengal Needs More Private Investments in Healthcare

West Bengal is keen to work with the private sector and the states agenda is to render top-class healthcare services […]

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Chain of High-Tech Viral Diagnostic Labs to tap Dengue

Soon  a network of high-tech viral diagnostic laboratories will be set up pan India to find out the real burden […]

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Johns Hopkins Launches Center for Population Health IT

Johns Hopkins has launched a new center focusing on population health IT to both improve and expand the use of […]

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Vision screening for diabetics goes high tech

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center provides technology that will make it easier for diabetics to get a screening that could save their vision.

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Redefining Public Health: December 2009 Issue

EDITORIAL Technnovation in Healthcare Dr. SMS “ a novel mobile-Health Application Rathan U Kelkar, Director, Kerala State IT Mission & Sabarish. […]

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New health phone number to launch across England

A non-emergency telephone number for NHS services is to launch across England, the Department of Health says. The 111 number, […]

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UK health service to dismantle nationwide health IT program

Government officials in the United Kingdom announced that they are scrapping a £11 billion [about $17 billion] national health IT […]

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WORLD

Ireland to invest Euro 500million in e-health As part of the National Development Plan (NDP) 2007-2013 the Irish Government plans […]

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UK health system expected to abandon e-health network

Government officials in the United Kingdom are expected to announce next month that they will cancel plans to create a centralized database of electronic health records, the London Independent reports.

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Taiwan readies to launch electronic medical records plan

Patients in Taiwan will no longer have to undergo the same medical tests repeatedly, once the nationwide electronic medical records plan kicks off this November, the Department of Health said.

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Cloud-based medical information sharing system to come on line

A cloud-based health care information system that will make it easier for doctors from different hospitals to access a patient’s records will be inaugurated in November, Department of Health (DOH) Minister Chiu Wen-ta said over the weekend.

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DOH launched wireless tech for healthcare

Smart Communications Inc. and the Department of Health (DOH) piloted a program here that introduces wireless technology in healthcare delivery.

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Five lakhs children have liver disease in Britain

Doctors say obesity levels are now so high that children are commonly suffering signs of disease more commonly associated with alcohol abuse, meaning many will go on to develop cirrhosis, with some requiring liver transplants.

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