GE Healthcare to acquire Indian medical cos

GE Healthcare is planning to acquire and provide seed capital to Indian medical device and diagnostic companies.

Alchemist meets world standards in critical care

Alchemist Hospital in Panchkula, India, is one of the few hospitals in the country having world-class ICU certified by College of Critical Care Medicine in Mumbai, India.

Ambulance service for Harvard Business School

Four years ago, five friends in Mumbai decided to do something to save lives. Today, their ambulance service, 1298, is bowling along on the high road to Harvard Business School, where it is likely to be taught as a case study in social entrepreneurship.

Maharashtra’s govt hospitals to be connected

Government-run hospitals in the state of Maharashtra will soon be electronically inter-connected and every patient visiting the hospital will be given a unique health identity number and will have access to his medical history at any hospital across the state.

Indian army to modernise Its medical services

Last month terror strikes in the country

Fortis eyes stakes in hospital chains

Fortis Healthcare, which operates a chain of hospitals across India, is seeking to buy a minority stake in Manipal Hospitals and Wockhardt.

Elder inks pact with Aussie firm

Mid-sized pharma firm Elder Pharmaceuticals has tied up with Australian pharma firm Global Energy Medicines (GEM) to market the latter

TPG’s Parkway Health to set up hospitals

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Wockhardt in talks to raise USD 100 mn

Mumbai-based drugmaker Wockhardt is in discussions with ICICI Venture, ChrysCapital and other private equity firms to divest a 15% stake. The country

Siemens introduces world’s fastest single source CT scanner

Siemens installed SOMATOM Definition Adaptive Scanner (AS+) – the world’s fastest single source Computed Tomograph (CT) scanner at Chitra Scan and Imaging Center in Dadar, Mumbai.

Business News – November 2008

GE enters home healthcare monitoring market GE Healthcare, a business of General Electric Co., is entering a potential USD 5 […]

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[This article was published in the November 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

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Practising Technology Integration : Dr. Rajesh Gupta, doctors in the Health IT field, India

As one who came to this Greenfield project as part of the systems implementer team, Dr. Rajesh Gupta, one of the few medical doctors in the Health IT field,