NComputing, a desktop virtualisation company won a contract from Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) and Wipro for 'Project Panchdeep', one of the largest e-governance projects in India. The project will aim to streamline insurance and healthcare services provided by ESIC to employers, employees and state and central government workers... Read more

Tata Elxsi Ltd and Narayana Hrudayalaya announced the signing of a MoU to mark their strategic alliance to develop affordable, high quality healthcare solutions. The partnership brings together Tata Elxsi's technology and design expertise and Narayana Hrudayalaya's domain knowledge to develop medical devices... Read more

Google has launched an online tool for tracking down where to get vaccinations against H1N1 and seasonal influenza in the United States. The flu-shot finder service went live online at google.com/flushot and will soon be available at flu.gov and websites of the American Lung Association... Read more

Health information technology is set to command an 11 percent compound annual growth rate until 2013, according to analysts. In a report published in Cambridge by Mass.-based health tech consulting firm Scientia Advisors predicts that HIT will take an increasingly big bite out of the USD 1 trillion global healthcare... Read more

SonoSite, Inc., specialist in hand-carried ultrasound for point-of-care medicine, has announced the expansion of the SonoAccess™ iPhone® application to include musculoskeletal specialties. SonoAccess is the first iPhone application to provide physicians with a comprehensive multimedia database of ultrasound resource materials... Read more

Smartphone application developer Gigabit has launched an iPhone application that offers comprehensive personal medical records management, maintenance and tracking for individuals and familiesThe HealthSync solution helps manage chronic conditions that require frequent monitoring and regular physician visits, and treatments such as diabetes, heart disease or allergies... Read more

Fortis Healthcare has announced that it is looking at adding three more hospitals to its chain with a total investment of nearly Rs 300 crore post Wockhardt acquisition...Read more

bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, has announced the US launch of chromID™ MRSA, a simple and cost-effective solution in the struggle against MRSA. The product recently received FDA 510(k) clearance for the detection of MRSA, one of the most pervasive sources for high-morbidity healthcare-associated infections (HAI) in US hospitals...Read more

Waltham-based lab and research gear provider PerkinElmer Inc. has been granted 510K clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration for its GSP Genetic Screening Processor, part of the newborn screening programsThe GSP, used in public health laboratories, tests infants for genetic, metabolic or haematologic disorders. It analyses samples on the spot, rather than in batches, allowing for faster results... Read more

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched an initiative in an effort to reduce preventable harm from inappropriate medication use... Read more

The insurance regulator has proposed a new consolidated health and life cover for over six crore poor families that will replace all existing insurance schemes sponsored by the central and state governments. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) plans to provide every poor family a life cover of Rs 1.5 lakh and a medical cover of Rs 1 lakh... Read more

iSOFT Group Limited, Australia's largest listed health information technology company today announced the implementation of the latest version of its Lorenzo electronic patient record solution at NHS Bury Primary Care Trust (PCT) in Lancashire. NHS Bury went live on 3 November with iSOFT's Lorenzo Regional Care 1.9... Read more

 

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