“we are driving innovation by delivering authoritative content with cutting-edge technology” : Rohit Kumar, Managing Director,

By changing the way healthcare professionals access information, Elsevier is at the forefront of the drive to improve outcomes for patients and reduce healthcare costs. Rohit Kumar-Managing Director, Elsevier Health Sciences, South Asia, in an interaction with Dhirendra Pratap Singh, shared Elsevier’s initiatives in this space and threw light upon the role of ICT in streamlining medical information products and services. Excerpts:

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Opportunities for Indian and European ICT Research Exploring Commonalities, Best Practices and Success Stories

eInfrastructures are becoming fundamental resources for supporting activities across the public sector in areas such as eGovernment, eResearch and eHealth.

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India aims to scrap unreliable TB tests

Following WHO warning, India alerts doctors of unreliable TB tests that may endanger patients

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Opto Circuits inks distribution pact with Japanese firm

Healthcare equipment maker Opto Circuits (India) said it has entered into an agreement with Japan’s Omron Healthcare to distribute equipment used for treatment of heart disease in the Japanese market.

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LIC launched Jeevan Arogya health insurance

Life Insurance Corporation of India has launched a new non-linked health insurance plan called

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India’s first heart implant training centre

Medtronic, a US-based medical technology service provider, opened its first therapy and procedure training centre (TPTC) in South Asia, in Chennai recently, giving India it’s first training centre for doctors to learn how to place implants in the heart.

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Philips Launches TruFlight Select

Philips, a leading health & well-being company, today unveiled

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Bristol-Myers Squibb Signs Expand Access to Reyataz (atazanavir sulfate) in sub-Saharan Africa and India

Bristol Myers Squibb Company today announced a new agreement to expand access to Reyataz (atazanavir sulfate).

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Shri Azad Launches Mass Screening Camps for Diabetes and Hypertension in Delhi Slums

The Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad today launched mass Screening Camps for early detection of diabetes and hypertension amongst slum dwellers in Delhi.

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Mass media reflects influence in usage of tobacco, says report

A recent findings from a national survey in India by Healis-Sekhsaria Institute of Public Health, an organisation work in the field of public health in India and other developing countries reveals that exposure to mass media may impact the use of tobacco in India which is a major source of illness and death.

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Snapshot of India’s Development Deficits

As is well known, income or consumption poverty is often used as shorthand to capture economic wellbeing of people. However, there is almost a consensus view among social scientists by now that such a view of poverty is too narrow and it is absolutely necessary to go beyond hunger and malnutrition and include several other features in conceptualising poverty, such as deprivation (or poor access) in terms of clothing, shelter, basic social services including primary health care, sanitation, education, shelter etc., political powerlessness, socio-cultural marginalisation and exclusion, among others. By any reckoning, development deficits in India are huge in terms of attaining the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals).

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Philips Launches Breakthrough Technology For Early And Precise Detection Of Cancer

Philips, a leading health & well-being company, today unveiled

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Ayursundra to open first-of-its-kind lifestyle clinic in Guwahati

        Dr. AbhijitHazarika CEO, Ayursundra         Simanta DasChairman, Ayursundra Ayursundra Healthcare will soon be […]

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