Business News – November 2008

GE enters home healthcare monitoring market GE Healthcare, a business of General Electric Co., is entering a potential USD 5 […]

NEWS REVIEW – BUSINESS

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

For the business news updates of the health care industry for the month of November 2008, browse through the pages of eHealth.

Bangalore hospital to set up medical college in Ahmedabad

Bangalore based Narayana Hrudayalaya hospital will set up a medical college in Gujarat on an investment of INR 2.5 billion (USD 507 million).

Google awards USD 14 million for disease prediction technology

Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, has announced grants of more than USD 14 million to support partners working in Southeast Asia and Africa to help prevent the next pandemic.

Cardiac defibrillators market to be up USD 16 Billion by 2015

Global market for Cardiac Defibrillators the market is forecast to exceed USD 16 billion by 2015. The market is primarily driven by the increasing incidence of cardiovascular diseases due to aging population and the increasing availability of emergency medical services worldover for the revival of sudden cardiac death victims.

ICICI Venture to raise healthcare corpus, buy into more hospitals

Leading private equity (PE) firm ICICI Venture is betting big on the country

State Department, IBM build telehealth bridge to rural Pakistan

A telemedicine project by the State Department, IBM, and other public and private organizations has enabled medical specialists to treat patients in remote, medically underserved areas of northern Pakistan, some of whom have suffered for years from easily treatable diseases.

Novel wireless application goes live

InfoLogix has announced that the first successful implementation in the US of a mobile wireless application for the healthcare industry is now being used to scan and track its inventory of more than 10,000 medical, research and scientific devices, located in 55 buildings throughout the Texas Medical Centre and the city of Houston.

Spearheading Innovation : Dr. Biswadip Mitra, Texas Instruments (India), India

Dr. Biswadip (Bobby) Mitra has been with Texas Instruments for over 20 years and is the Managing Director of Texas Instruments (India).

Dell, Intel and Motion team up on health IT

Global IT firms Dell, Intel and Motion Computing have launched a new service to assess, design and validate the quality and coverage of wireless networks soon to become the backbone of health care information flow.

TI delivers breakthrough power efficient AFEs

Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) recently introduced two new power efficient integrated analog front ends (AFEs) for handheld ultrasound systems.

Bluetooth system orients pedestrians in urban environments

A new system based on Bluetooth wireless technology places a layer of information technology over the real world to tell visually challenged pedestrians about points of interest along their path as they pass them.
It can also assist those with poor and normal sight.

NEWS REVIEW – WORLD

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

Medical data breach insurance, euHeart Project, bird flu detection machine, Version 3 of HL 7 are some of the stories reported in the World News section of eHealth.