Physicians Will Benefit from Medical Software Advice Website

Software Advice recently launched its Medical Software Advice website, a free resource designed to match medical software buyers with the right technology for their practices.

Government of India to introduce medical devices regulation bill

The Department of Science & Technology has proposed to bring in a new legislation to enforce uniform and effective standards of Medical Devices throughout the country so as to ensure that substandard devices are not exported, especially to developing countries, which do not have medical devices regulation in place and also for use within the country.

Khakwani invites Japanese companies to invest in telemedicine and telecom sector

State Minister for Information Technology Ishaq Khakwani has invited Japanese companies to invest in key telecommunication areas, including broadband and telemedicine, which offered a tremendous scope for growth in the country.

Online help for Mumbai’s (India) heart patients

The Asian Heart Institute (AHI) of Mumbai has launched its telemedicine facility for heart patients of the city.

Online help for Mumbai’s (India) heart patients

The Asian Heart Institute (AHI) of Mumbai has launched its telemedicine facility for heart patients of the city.

Indian Govt. planning workplace health policy for IT professionals

A growing number of young IT professionals in India are seen to be suffering from lifestyle diseases. Keeping this in view the government is planning a workplace health policy for those working in this sector.

Tenders worth INR 1,500 Cr to open in Oct for AIIMS-like hospitals in six cities

A Rs1,500 crore project, the first major government investment for healthcare will kick off in the first week of October with the opening of architecture and design tenders for six hospital projects.

Trivitron MD receives Rajiv Gandhi Shiromani Award, 2007

In recognition for his outstanding contribution in the field of diagnostic and health care industry in India, Dr. GSK Velu, Managing Director, Trivitron group of companies has been conferred with the ‘Rajiv Gandhi Shiromani Award,2007’.

First ‘pharmacovigilance’ center launched in India

Accenture and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company have together launched the pharmaceutical industry’s first ‘pharmacovigilance’ center, in Chennai, India, to monitor safety of data collected on medicines.

Norwest to Venture Beyond IT to Healthcare and Retail in India

Kurt L Betcher, administrative partner and chief financial officer of Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), and his colleague and general partner Robert B Abbott were recently in India.

Betcher’s focus was on the logistics of setting up and running an office in India, while Abbott, was looking for investment opportunities in the country, beyond the realm of technology that NVP had so far restricted itself to.

SRIT forms a Joint Venture HealthCare ICT Company in China

Sobha Renaissance Information Technology (SRIT), a Bangalore based global software products and solutions provider, recently announced the setting up of a joint venture (JV) company in China called Sunpa Sobha Software (China) Ltd with ‘Yunnan Sunpa Image Tel Tech Co. Ltd (Sunpa)’ as its JV partner. Headquartered in Kunming, Sunpa Sobha Software (China) Ltd. will have operating branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.

Trivitron(Chennai, India) and Aloka(Japan) sign JV

Trivitron group of companies, the largest Indian medical technology company and Aloka, the innovators in Ultrasound technology from Japan today announced their joint venture agreement to manufacture cost effective, High Technology Ultrasound equipment in India to suit the needs of the developing countries. The Joint Venture will embark on an Initial investment of about 50 crores by both the companies followed by further investments in due course.

Sagem Orga’s Operating system MICARDO gets EAL4+ certification

Version 3 of Sagem Orga’s operating system MICARDO, has been certified uation Assurance Level (EAL) 4+ by the BSI, the German Office for Security in Information Technology.