HIL to pick up 8.5% in Apollo BPO

Mauritius-based firm Healthcare Investment (HIL) is picking up around 8.5% stake in Apollo Health Street (AHS), the healthcare BPO arm of India

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Reliance partners UN to fight HIV epidemic in India

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and the UNAIDS, the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, are launching an unique partnership to halt and reverse the HIV epidemic in India.

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Wockhardt Hospitals gets the best website award

Wockhardt Hospitals group

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E-health is C’wealth’s new agenda

The 53-nation Commonwealth launches world’s first international e-health initiative across countries and continents recently in an attempt to harness its members’ evidentially extraordinary appetite for hi-tech with health-friendly governance.

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MedPlus forays into Gujarat with plans of 200 stores

The organised retail health sector in Gujarat seems to be hotting up. After pharmacy and wellness chains of Apollo and Reliance, now Hyderabad-based MedPlus Health Services Pvt Ltd, one of the fastest growing chain of health network, is marking its foray into Gujarat by launching its pharmacies in Ahmedabad.

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TN to emerge as hub with Trivitron’s medical technology park

Trivitron’s Medical Technology Park (MTP) is all set to commence construction in Chennai; MTP to create employment for 1000 people by 2011; signs JVs with Aloka, Brandon and Bio-systems for the MTP.

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Govt to pump in INR 750 cr in GQ healthcare project

The government plans to invest INR 750 crore to develop health centres in partnership with health majors such as Apollo Group and trauma care centres like Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI), Hyderabad. And nearly 140 trauma care centres will be developed along the 6,500 km long north-south and east-west corridors of the four to six lane express highway.

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Veeda Oncology acquires Biologie et Industrie of Paris

Veeda Oncology, the subsidiary of one of the leading Global CRO

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TPG may buy 30% stake in Manipal for INR 500 cr

Private equity (PE) giant Texas Pacific Group (TPG)-controlled Parkway Hospital in Singapore is leading the race to acquire 25-30% stake in Bangalore-headquartered Manipal Hospital for over INR 500 crore, sources said.

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Manipal Cure and Care launches SNORBEN in India

Manipal Cure and Care [MCC], India

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Techmagnate bags prestigious medical tourism portal project

Techmagnate, a fast growing Internet firm of India, has bagged prestigious order of developing and managing the complete web portal on medical tourism for All India Medical Tourism Company.

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New business models dot medical outsourcing

Indian hospitals are upping the ante on outsourcing. Instead of making heavy capital investments on expensive diagnostic equipment, costing INR 1.5 to INR 5 crore for MRI & CT scans, hospitals are opting for newer pay-per-use and outsourced models.

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Global healthcare IT firm enters Pune

US-based healthcare information technology services firm Eclipsys has set up its second India unit in Pune to support its cleint base in Europe, US and Australia.

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