Government of Jamaica and the World Bank plan new HIV/ AIDS Initiative

The World Bank has recently announced that it will work with Jamaican authorities to prepare a Second HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Project based on the current program

It is a different ball game in the case of patents’ filing in India

It has come to the notice that despite the presence of a patent law that guards against giving exclusive commercial rights for modifications of existing medicines, research firms, both multinational and domestic, have tried their luck on 80 patent applications on TB drugs pending with Indian patent offices across the country.

Check personal health records via ICE technology

Now, patients can check medical records through their mobile phone. A division of Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc., CapMed, has acquired the technology, which provides mobile phone-based medical records.

Check personal health records via ICE technology

Now, patients can check medical records through their mobile phone. A division of Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc., CapMed, has acquired the technology, which provides mobile phone-based medical records.

New York State Health Dept. launches EPHT website

The New York State Health Department has launched its Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) website, which provides links to existing environmental and human health related data.

Health and nutrition package for Laos from ADB

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is assisting the Government of Lao People

ADB is supporting Philippines in combating spread of HIV/ AIDS

Asian Development Bank (ADB) will sponsor a programme to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS by raising awareness among high-risk groups in the Philippines in partnership with the government’s Department of Health, members of the private sector and non-government organizations.

RFID in Healthcare – The Emerging Enabler : A.U. Jai Ganesh, S. Srikrishna

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

RFID has the potential to become a atalyst for new efficiencies and enhanced ervices for healthcare service providers.

Information Ethics in Paperless Hospitals : Sapiah Binti Sulaiman, Rose Alinda Alias, Azizah Abd. Rahman

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

While paperless hospitals are being introduced in Malaysia and all over the globe, there is lack of a holistic code of ethics, specifically for handling massive computer-based information in these hospitals.

NEWS REVIEW – INDIA UPDATE

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

News Review

Technology for Health is the Emerging Mantra

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

Editorial

Stalis Serious on Healthcare Data

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

For companies like Oxford-based Stalis, the competence in data migration is an USP in itself.

Microsoft Public Healthcare Seminar: ITs a Healthy Effort

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

Microsoft Corporation and US Agency for International Development (USAID)recently came together to organise a seminar, focusing on the potential of IT in public healthcare.