NEWS REVIEW – INDIA

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

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Microsoft’s US$ 3 million fund for HealthVault

Microsoft has created a US$ 3 million fund to invest in applications built for its HealthVault electronic medical records platform, the company announced recently.

Indian chain plans US$54.5 mn expansion in Middle East

Indian preventive healthcare and beauty-care brand VLCC has announced rolling out of a 200 million-dirham (US$54.5 million) expansion across the Middle East and plans of an initial public offer (IPO) by 2009.

Large US medical insurers agree cover for online doctor visits

Since the dawn of e-mail, patients have been pleading for more doctors to offer medical advice online. No traffic jams, no long waits, no germ-infested offices. There was always one major roadblock: Many health insurers wouldn’t pay for it.

Operation Eyesight Universal to spend US$4 mn in India

Operation Eyesight Universal (OEU), a Canada based International Development organisation dedicated to eliminate avoidable blindness, has plans to spend four million dollars in India this year for sight restoration and blindness prevention activities.

Indian IT to boom on US healthcare stimulus

U.S. stimulus for the healthcare sector is proving a boon to the Indian IT with numerous IT-healthcare contracts coming to the country. The Obama administration has unveiled plans to invest USD 10 billion annually in IT to refurbish the American healthcare system.

QUALITY par-excellence : Mack Banner, Chief utive Officer- Bumrungrad International Hospital, Bangkok

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ITC-Welcom hotels plans foray into medical tourism

ITC-Welcom Group Hotel, Palaces and Resorts is testing waters for the medical tourism needs of India. Through its subsidiary, Fortune Park Hotels Ltd, the group would come up with its first property for the specialised tourism in Thane, near Mumbai, by August.

Hinduja

The Hinduja group has evinced an interest to set up a state-of-the-art medicity near Kolkata. The proposed medicity will house a medical college, a dental college, a nurses

GE makes digital X-Rays affordable – eHEALTH Team

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

GE Healthcare�s new Tejas XR 6000 high frequency X-ray promises to reduce the cost of direct digital X-ray systems to half of the price at which they are currently imported into India.

Exchanging health information – eHealth Initiatives in the USA : Susan Thomas, eHEALTH

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

The multi-stakeholder, non-profit eHealth Initiative (eHI) recently released the results of its Fourth Annual Survey (2007)of Health Information Exchange at the State, Regional and Community Levels in the United States of America, taking stock of 130 community-based health information exchange initiatives. We seek to take stock of the situation as it now appears in the US, and what kind of learning it proposes to the rest of the world.

Architecting Health Network – Building a Foundation for Health Connectivity : Michael Gill, Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group

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

Health IT tends to be a catch-all phrase and includes almost anything electronic that displays or transports information. This article focuses primarily on the transportation of information and the provision of applications in a connected environment, where connectivity is the defining factor.

NEWS REVIEW – INDIA

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

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