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Modern electronics is revolutionising healthcare like never before. While bringing superior diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities, electronic and semiconductor technologies are also making […]
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Modern electronics is revolutionising healthcare like never before. While bringing superior diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities, electronic and semiconductor technologies are also making […]
[This article was published in the March 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
While medical sciences have extensively enlarged its knowledge pool over the last few decades, healthcare delivery continue to become ever more complex, costlier and in some cases, even cumbersome.
UnitedHealth Group has adopted new standards for healthcare ID cards across all its health plans. The cards will provide patient eligibility information and access to a personal health record, and process healthcare transactions.
The standardisation of Personal Health Records (PHRs) received a boost with the international healthcare IT standards body, Health Level Seven (HL7) publishing a Personal Health Record System Functional Model (PHR-S FM) as a draft standard for trial use.
Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and disabled in the US, will offer financial bonuses to doctors who prescribe drugs electronically rather than on paper. Doctors who do not will face penalties from Medicare starting in 2012.
A national campaign to raise awareness about Medicare’s federal prescription drug coverage has been launched by “Medicare Today.”
Leading private equity (PE) firm ICICI Venture is betting big on the country
[This article was published in the September 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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India is gradually moving to use of one emergency telephone number across the country, 108, on the lines of America’s 911 and Britain’s 999.
Patients in remote villages of Jharkhand will soon have access to specialists without having to travel long distances for an examination.
IBA Health Group Limited- Australia’s largest listed health information technology company has announced two additional Australian private health insurance funds will connect to its expanding eHealth network for real-time, point-of-care electronic health claiming and payment services.