GE Healthcare, Gujarat Imaging expand facilities

GE Healthcare and Gujarat Imaging Centre (GIC), which launched the State

Earthquake-resistant hospital to start functioning soon

In a first of its kind in Asia, a INR 100 crore earthquake-resistant hospital providing advanced treatment in the field of liver and biliary sciences will start functioning in the national capital.

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HIMSS AsiaPac 08, 20 – 23 May 2008, Hong Kong

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

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), in conjunction with CHIK Services, organised AsiaPac08 at the Hong Kong

Apollo Hospitals to hive off pharma retailing into separate company

Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd intends to spin off its pharma retailing business into a separate company, though not immediately.

Hospitals must give records within 72 hrs

In a landmark order, the national consumer disputes redressal commission has made it mandatory for all medical practitioners and hospitals across the country to provide the entire medical records of a patient to himher or the authorised nominee or legal authorities concerned within 72 hours of the demand.

Soon hospitals to be e-linked with CGHS clinics

Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) dispensaries in the city, seven in number, are to get fully computerized.

Private DNA bank launched in India

A human DNA Bank was established by an Indian biotechnology firm director in northern city Lucknow recently. This is Asia’s only and the world’s second human DNA Bank.

Pvt hospitals treating poor for free can claim duty exemption

Only those private hospitals and health centres who provide free treatment to a certain percentage of poor patients are entitled to customs duty exemption on sophisticated imported medical equipment, the Supreme Court has ruled.

India to earn INR 8000 cr through medical tourism

Easy access to visa facilities permitted by India to overseas patients coupled with the best emerging medical infrastructure in large and tertiary towns will make the country earn to an extent of INR 8,000 crore in foreign exchange by 2012, a new study has said.

Coimbatore hospital a model for e-governance

The Directorate of Medical Education is focussing on adopting e-governance to make outpatient registration, consultation and prescribing of medicines smooth in all medical college hospitals in the State.

Manipal Cure and Care launches SNORBEN in India

Manipal Cure and Care [MCC], India

Connected health in Balearic Islands

All public hospitals and around 80 connected Primary Health Centers in the Balearic Islands are now connected to a joint network, where the use of a master patient index is enabling Balearic doctors to access patient data and medical findings anytime.