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The department of information technology (DIT) has initiated the process of assigning a unique identification (UID) to the Indian citizen. The UID will provide a common medium for identifying all citizens by government agencies and enhancing the efficiency and transparency in service delivery.
An e-Governance initiative by Drishtee, a network orchestrator is delivering fee based services in rural population of Madhubani district in Bihar, India.
A visually impaired student has developed Brailleface, software, which converts Braille commands into Devanagari script on the computer screen.
The National Rural Health Mission has collaborated with ICICI bank to provide e-banking solution for healthcare services in Kerala, India.
Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH) and Apollo Hospitals of India have jointly come together to provide telemedicine services in Maldives.
“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
Intel has developed the first Digital Hospital with WiMAX network to equip with 100 Mobile Computer Labs.
[This article was published in the November 2006 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Malaria, HIV-AIDS, Diarrohea, basic maternal and infant health related problems abound the world and happen to be killer diseases, threatening the very development prospects for many nations. The poor suffer the most due to lack of adequate healthcare infrastructure or access.
Space Hospitals, a Chennai based company in India has got involved in an extention activity of providing medical care to rural areas. Accordingly it has linked 13 super speciality hospitals with 60 of its satellite medical centres, inter connecting, various parts of the country.
The Kanchi Kamakoti Childs Trust Hospital in Tamil Nadu (India) is going to introduce new facility to make speciality care more accessible to rural patients.
The Kanchi Kamakoti Childs Trust Hospital in Tamil Nadu (India) is going to introduce new facility to make speciality care more accessible to rural patients.
The Government of India, in collaboration with the World Bank, began an initiative in 2004 called the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP), a network that would connect government hospitals, medical colleges, state headquarters, and district surveillance units to a central database.
The Government of India, in collaboration with the World Bank, began an initiative in 2004 called the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP), a network that would connect government hospitals, medical colleges, state headquarters, and district surveillance units to a central database.
