Microsoft is to buy Sentillion, a specialist in single sign-on technology for the healthcare industry. The acquisition represents the latest step in the firm's growing presence in the health IT market, further extending the capabilities of its Amalga product suite. Microsoft hopes to combine Sentillion's technologies with its own Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS)... Read more

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved USD 279 million in new grants for India, taking total funds for the world's second-most populous country to more than USD 1.1 billion. India is the fund's second-highest recipient for money to fight HIV behind Ethiopia. It has the world's third-highest incidence of HIV/AIDS, with around 2.5 million infections, after Nigeria and South Africa... Read more

Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospitals group said it intends to open a 2,000-bed multi-speciality hospital in the Cayman Islands in two years' time as part of its expansion plans.The group's chairman, Devi Shetty, said the hospital will employ 1,000 doctors, nurses and medical staff from India and US... Read more

The Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal announced that the State Government would soon initiate a pilot project to set up a Dental Implant Centre at Mohali, the first-of-its kind in India under Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode to provide the best quality implants to the common man at affordable rates... Read more

The Indian railways is looking to greatly improve its medical facilities by using the public-private partnership model. It proposes to establish 18 medical colleges attached to existing railway hospitals through PPP. These colleges would be at Chennai, Hyderabad, Bilaspur, Lucknow, Barasat, Bhubaneshwar, Mysore, Kharagpur, Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Jodhpur, Gardenreach, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, B R Singh Hospital Kolkata, Bhopal, Jammu and Thirvanthapuram... Read more

Touch Bionics, developer of advanced upper-limb bionic technologies has announced the commercial launch of ProDigits, the world's first powered bionic finger solution for patients with missing fingers. Created by a company called the i-LIMB Hand, the ProDigits solution extends life-changing technology to partial-hand patients, whose finger absence is either due to congenital anomalies or amputation from a traumatic incident or medical condition.... Read more

Siemens Healthcare and SAP AG have signed an agreement whereby SAP will resell in selected target markets the Siemens Healthcare hospital information system (HIS) i.s.h.med - a leading health information system for the clinical setting that helps healthcare providers improve efficiencies, contributing to improved patient care and the management information system... Read more

Australia's largest listed health information technology company announced three new contracts in Germany totalling €1.34 million ($2.2 million), including iSOFT's Lorenzo Portal and the first order for the company's new picture archiving and communications system (PACS). All three contracts were finalised in November...Read more

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Royal Philips Electronics have signed a EUR 200 million loan agreement. The 10 year loan, provided under the Risk-Sharing Finance Facility (RSFF) will be used to finance research and development (R&D) activities across a range of innovative healthcare projects, including image-guided intervention and home healthcare, in Europe...Read more

Biocon and HCG group of hospitals have announced their partnership to conduct a study to evaluate the potential benefits of BIOMAb EGFR® in cervical cancer patients. This unique molecule would take healthcare for cervical cancer patients... Read more

A rapid and sensitive integrated system to test simultaneously for specific cardiac biomarkers in finger prick amount of blood has been developed by scientists at Singapore's Institute of Microelectronics (IME).The silicon-based integrated system's features could help physicians quickly arrive at the right diagnosis for timely medical intervention in patients... Read more

As part of President Obama's new open government initiative, HHS has announced the launch of three Web- based projects designed to improve information sharing, project collaboration and public health awareness. The projects are—research data streaming, CCD's IdeaLab and YouTube for H1N1 Awareness... Read more

 

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