Lilavati plans another 300-bed hospital in Mumbai

Medical care provider Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre is planning to set up another 300-bed hospital in Mumbai at an approximate cost of INR 200 crore.

Gujarat to start e-diagnosis in all villages

On the back of successful launch of its “e-gram” initiative, under which villages have been offered broadband connectivity, the Gujarat government’s health department has announced an e-medicine scheme for rural areas.

Pioneering Cardiac Care : Dr. T S Kler, utive Director – Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre

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India’s foray into telemedicine faces difficulties

India’s attempts to make a foray into the world of telemedicine has not made much headway, especially due to foreign data processing laws and difficulties in certification of qualifications of Indian telemedicine providers, the Planning Commission has said.

Karishma Software wins IBM Global Public Sector Top Star award for 2008

Karishma Software Ltd., is a winner of IBM Global Public Sector Top Star award for 2008, announced recently. The Indian company is one of five Business Partners recognized with this prestigious award by the Global Healthcare & Life Sciences industry.

APOLLO HOSPITALS, DHAKA

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

Apollo Hospitals Dhaka is a colossal 400,000 square feet structure on 4 acres of land. It houses a 450-bed super speciality facility delivering advanced tertiary care of international standards to the people of Bangladesh.

Tatanet grabs contract from TCIL for telemedicine

Tatanet, a division of NELCO Ltd, has announced that it has received a multi-million dollar order for supply of Satcom equipment from Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) for a e-Network project providing telemedicine.

ISRO extends Telemedicine project across Karnataka

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has extended its telemedicine project to 14 more districts in Karnataka. With the inauguration of Karnataka Telemedicine Project Operational Phase II, the entire state is now covered under the project, senior ISRO officials said recently.

Investing in Healthcare : Vishwa Chandra, Tejus Sawjiani, Singularity Ventures, India

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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.

Medtronic to surf Europe’s ‘wave of telemedicine’

The US-medical device manufacturer Medtronic is planning to extend its presence as a telemedicine provider in Europe the company announced in Switzerland recently.

Greek telemedicine programme extended to more areas

Doctors and nursing staff from several municipalities in Greece – plus four specialists from the Athens Medical Centre – have been trained in the use of telemetric systems as part of an extension of the country’s telemedicine programme.

An NHS health board to run telemedicine trial

A telemedicine initiative first piloted in the NHS Grampian area is now to be trialled in Perthshire by NHS Tayside, it was revealed recently.