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The financially-weaker section of the society may hope to get better healthcare facilities from privately-run hospitals such as Escorts, Max and Apollo in the future. The government is planning to issue healthcare vouchers to the poor who could use it as a currency in private hospitals. Hospitals, in turn, may get full refund from either the government or accredited insurance companies.
A government committee has decided to widen the ambit of its initial mandate and find ways to control the prices of imported medical devices.
The Government has recently introduced the Drugs and Cosmetics (Amendment) Bill, 2007 in order to facilitate setting up of a Central Drugs Authority and introduce centralized licensing for manufacture of drugs.
It is being claimed that lack of clear modalities on the public-private partnership (PPP) model is delaying the much-hyped entry of the private healthcare sector as a big-time service provider in government hospitals across the country.
GE Healthcare, the US$17 billion healthcare business of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) has announced the signing of a contract between the Government of Madhya Pradesh, GE Healthcare and Sanya Hospitals and Diagnostic center
After launching the first batch ‘Hospitals on Wheels’ in Guwahati, Kokrajhar programme has received its share of mobile healthcare facilities. Introduced under the National Rural Health Mission, the mobile medical units are equipped with X-Ray machines, a microscope, ECG machine, ultrasound, autoclaves, auto-analyser, stretchers and a pharmacy.
The Quality Council of India is seeking help from corporates for elevating quality standards in hospitals. It is planning to ask corporate houses to make quality certification mandatory before empanelling hospitals for providing medical benefits to their respective employees.
Three health information exchange projects in rural California are showing how such exchanges can boost healthcare services to underserved populations.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs in India has given its approval for setting up an integrated network of trauma centres along the Golden Quadrilateral, North-South and East-West Corridors of the National Highways.
A pharma packaging company Bilcare Research of Pune has launched a product to help check the menace of counterfeit drugs. The product has a label with a unique bar code made out of nanotechnology and fingerprinting.
The newest entrant in the Indian health insurance business, Apollo DKV Insurance Co., plans to sell health insurance, but it wants to help customers stay healthy through its
Telemedicine might become one of the priority trends in healthcare development in Russia. In the year 2008 a range of
large telemedicine projects is expected to be implemented. According to specialists, the given sector will develop in Russia not only due to the state initiative, but thanks to attracting private investment.
The government will allocate INR 1,360 billion (USD 34.50 billion) for healthcare in the 11th Five-Year Plan (2007-12), up from INR 450 billion in the previous plan, said Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss. He also said that the government will introduce a ‘health smart card’ under the National School Health Programme for every school-going child.
