Arizona takes a step ahead in health informatics

The state of Arizona, US is making significant inroads into e-Health, more specifically into health informatics.

Free maternal healthcare scheme launched in North India

A scheme titled Coupon Lao; Sehat Pao was launched on 24th January 2007 in seven blocks of Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India that will provide free maternal healthcare benefits and pre-pregnancy care to an estimated 8,000 women.

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

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e-Health: An answer to the depressing healthcare scenario

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

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A MEET OF GREAT BELIEF

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

The aim of this first of its kind event was to exchange information and views on how eInfrastructures are currently deployed in both Europe and India, with the objective of analysing how their increasing role is viewed in a business, educational, socio-political and scientific context.

BP, Intel, Wal-Mart to launch electronic medical record system

Applied Materials Inc., British Petroleum America Inc., Intel Corp., Pitney Bowes Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., are funding a nonprofit institute to develop “Dossia”, a Web-based electronic health record system, which can be used for storing health information of 2.5 million employees and departments.

Visually impaired student develops software for blind

A visually impaired student has developed Brailleface, software, which converts Braille commands into Devanagari script on the computer screen.

NASCIO releases State Health IT Initiatives

NASCIO announced about the release of the compendium, Profiles of Progress: State Health IT Initiatives.

CQU supports Chile for e-Health scheme

The South American nation of Chile will get an improved health system with the help from Central Queensland University’s (CQU) health informatics faculty.

Future of e-health in India is bright : Dr. Shashi Gogia, President, Indian Association for Medical Informatics, India

“The biggest advantage, which has been in favour of
e-Health in our country is that now, the Ministry of Health has started taking an active part. The Ministry of Health has taken the initiative of setting up a task force for telemedicine, which is an advisory body”, says Dr. Shashi Gogia, President, Indian Association for Medical Informatics, or IAMI, engaged in promoting application of informatics in the fields of healthcare, bioscience and medicine in India, in an interview with Sanjeev Shrivastav of eHealth

Online website

A new online website is launched on November 7, 2006 to provide online support for mental health problems to patients. The website www.mhchoice.org.uk is designed to support patients for their mental related health problems.

E-HEALTH AND THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM : Denise Silber

[This article was published in the November 2006 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

eHealth is a work in progress. Many countries have named a national coordinator or taskforce, or at a minimum assigned the subject to the tasks of the national health ministry. But no national system provides all of the e-Health services at the present time

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[This article was published in the November 2006 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

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