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Siemens Healthcare has announced its first molecular imaging biomarker production facility in Chennai, India. The new facility will enable the healthcare providers in and around Chennai to access the positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) technology to diagnose patients with life-threatening diseases, such as cancer and cardiac and neurological ailments.
Max New York Life Insurance has entered health insurance sector by launching ‘lifeline’ consisting of three distinct groups of solutions.
ICICI Venture, the largest domestic private equity fund, is all set to sign a deal with a foreign strategic investor in its endeavor to become a health care investment major in the country.
In the next three years, India would move towards setting up a drug regulatory authority on the model of the US FDA, the country
[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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Intel Technology India Pvt Ltd in collaboration with other Intel World Ahead Program Alliance members and the Government of India, have announced a number of initiatives to help transform healthcare and education in the old city of Chandini Chowk, in the country
India is considering a proposal to hike costs of obtaining blood via tranfusion by up to 70% as part of a plan to revise service charges to help pay for more advanced testing and storage of blood.
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
As the health care system continues to change and adapt to the new realities associated with finance and management restructuring, the technological side of patient care also has changed. Telemedicine is the new buzz word in the constantly changing vocabulary of the health care system the world over.
The Tamil Nadu Government is planning to establish a health village for medicare and medical research in South Asia.
The Ranbaxy group-promoted Fortis Healthcare in a fresh bid to acquire a strong foothold in the south, has after acquiring the 180-bed Malar Hospital in Chennai, now set its sight on the 450-bed Lifeline Hospital chain in Chennai.
The Tamil Nadu Government is keen on taking the benefits of telemedicine to the poor in rural and urban areas of the state.
[This article was published in the November 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Telemedicine has changed healthcare delivery dynamics in the interest of extending health services to all individuals and eliminating time and distance barriers.
