Star Health emerges lowest bidder in TN health insurance scheme

Star Health Insurance has emerged as the lowest bidder in the Tamil Nadu health insurance scheme. The company had initially […]

Redefining Public Health: December 2009 Issue

EDITORIAL Technnovation in Healthcare Dr. SMS “ a novel mobile-Health Application Rathan U Kelkar, Director, Kerala State IT Mission & Sabarish. […]

“ICT is a vital tool for efficient delivery of healthcare services” : Amod Kumar, Project Director – Maternal and Newborn Health Project (Manthan Project), IntraHealth, India

Amod Kumar is an Indian Administrative Services officer of the 1995 batch, belonging to UP Cadre. He has held several positions in the UP government, some of which include, Special Secretary, Basic Education & Director, Mid-day-Meal;

Health for All

[This article was published in the June 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

With the Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project now in place, the state government is upbeat about making its public sector health services more accessible to the poor

“Cost of this project will come out from saving pilferages” : Dr. Sanjay Bijwe, Medical Education & Drugs Department,Government of Maharashtra, India

The HMIS project was implemented in Maharashtra under the eGovernance policy decision to improve standards of healthcare delivery and medical education. Dr. Sanjay Bijwe, Project Director & Officer-on-Special-Duty, in an interview with eHealth, provides insight into the major project highlights

Telemedicine links Africans to Indian expertise

Linked by a high-speed Internet connection, the doctors in Care Hospital in Hyderabad, India, study X-rays and laboratory results being transmitted by doctors from Black Lion Hospital in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Flipping between charts, they use light pens to point out important features. They can see each other in windows on their screens, while medical charts fill the rest of the display.