New version of SGSY

Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will launch the National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) at Banswara in Rajasthan on Saturday.

Union Budget 2010-11 Roadmap for Healthcare in India : Saba Firdaus, Research Assistant, eHEALTH

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

Healthcare, expected to reach over US$75 billion by 2010 and US$150 billion by 2017, has a huge potential for growth in India.

NRHM gets the IT edge – eHEALTH Bureau (Dipanjan Banerjee & Susan Thomas)

[This article was published in the January 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Improving health conditions in rural areas has always been the biggest challenge in India. eHealth tries to find out how the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) would impact rural health care in India.

IT@Hospital Survey

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

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) can play a critical role in improving health care for individuals and communities.

Project Franchise Lab – Healthcare at the bottom of the pyramid : Shibaji Mandal,Director – Healthcare, Krishi Gram Vikas Kendra, Usha Martin

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

The massive yet unexplored rural healthcare market is drawing the attention of many today.

Universal Solution to the Healthcare Challenge : Prof. Diana Schmidt, IT Faculty of Heilbronn University and Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University

Interview

Universalising healthcare through telemedicine

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

Millions of people in India do not have access to essential healthcare. Can telemedicine be the answer?

UNM Health Sciences plans $15.5 million telehealth grid

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center’s Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine Research has been awarded US$ 15.5 million from the Federal Communications Commission for the design, construction, operation and uation of a Southwest Telehealth Access Grid.

Chandigarh to connect local health centres with telemedicine project

In order to provide more quality health care to its people, the Chandigarh Administration has decided to connect various important Community Health Centre, Manimajra and Community Health Centre, Sector-22 with Government Multi Specialty Hospital (GMSH), Sector-16, Chandigarh through telemedicine project.

China unveils healthcare scheme

China’s Health Minister has announced an ambitious program to provide basic healthcare for every citizen in the world’s most populous nation.

Health information exchanges aid healthcare in rural California

Three health information exchange projects in rural California are showing how such exchanges can boost healthcare services to underserved populations.

Rural WNC gets telemedicine grant

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has launched US$ 400 million program under which patients in rural areas would be able to tap the nation’s top doctors over the Internet.

GE Health’s new mantra:

GE Healthcare’s Indian arm, a joint venture between Wipro Ltd and General Electric Co., making a range of high-end technology products locally with support from its Japan unit, reducing the costs by about 40 percent, helping rural India market.