Intelligent Communication : Madhukar Saboo, Head – healthcare & Life Sciences vertical, Avaya GlobalConnect

[This article was published in the January 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

An integrated approach to IT and communication systems for better patient care and higher operational efficiencies is very much the need of the hour. This article looks at the importance of effective communication channels that can help in providing better health care facilities.

NRHM gets the IT edge – eHEALTH Bureau (Dipanjan Banerjee & Susan Thomas)

[This article was published in the January 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Improving health conditions in rural areas has always been the biggest challenge in India. eHealth tries to find out how the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) would impact rural health care in India.

Achieving the Vision of Connected Healthcare : Anantharaman S Iyer, Regional Director – India, InterSystems

[This article was published in the January 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Ready availability of correct information is very critical for the health care industry. eHealth looks at various advanced health care information system that can be of use in the health care industry.

Trending Enterprise Healthcare : Brian Cohen, Chief Technology Officer, iSOFT

[This article was published in the January 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

The Chief Technology Officer of iSOFT tells us about LORENZO – The newly launched innovative service oriented software from iSOFT.

Arizona boosts health data system with SAS technology

The Arizona Health Query, a project designed to develop and maintain a community health data system for Arizona residents, is using analytics software to integrate and analyse healthcare records.

HL7 publishes draft PHR standards

The standardisation of Personal Health Records (PHRs) received a boost with the international healthcare IT standards body, Health Level Seven (HL7) publishing a Personal Health Record System Functional Model (PHR-S FM) as a draft standard for trial use.

KLAS announces top-performing software and services vendors for 2008

Market research firm KLAS has named Epic as the highest-performing healthcare vendor across all market segments in its annual rankings, which were released recently.

Govt mulls medical devices price regulation Act

The Government would soon bring in a medical devices Act in a bid to regulate prices of healthcare equipment.

Commission sets out steps on patient safety

The European Commission has published proposals designed to improve patient safety and reduce the number of patients who suffer harm from the healthcare they received.

SMS for the nearest healthcare facility in India

If you happen to be anywhere in Kerala

IBM develops open-standard medical imaging, archiving solutions

IBM has unveiled a powerful combination of advanced imaging and information archiving technologies that provides healthcare and medical research organisations with complete and timely access to critical imaging and diagnostic information at the point of care

Perfect vision for health informatics

Representatives of international and regional e-health advocacy groups are meeting at the Wellcome Trust in London this week to agree plans for building

Piramal fund may buy Trichy hospital stake for INR 100 cr

Ajay Piramal Group