eHEALTH Weekly Newsletter :: 20 - 26 January 2009 Vol. III Issue 3   
 
 
TOP STORIES
    Maharashtra's govt hospitals to be connected
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Government-run hospitals in the state of Maharashtra will soon be electronically inter-connected and every patient visiting the hospital will be given a unique health identity number and will have access to his medical history ... Read more
 
 
 
 
    GE Healthcare to acquire Indian medical cos
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GE Healthcare is planning to acquire and provide seed capital to Indian medical device and diagnostic companies. The USD 17 billion healthcare company ... Read more
 
 
 
 
    CMPMedica, iSOFT sign global contract for drug information decision-support tools
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CMPMedica, a division of United Business Media Limited, and healthcare IT sysytems supplier iSOFT, have signed a worldwide agreement to supply iSOFT with comprehensive evidence-based drug information... Read more
 
 
 
 
    Hospitals in Chandigarh to be snychronized
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Jolting the health department in Chandigarh out of its slumber, the recent case in PGI where a patient died for being admitted to ICU allegedly due to bed shortage, has once again raked up the issue of synchorinzing all hospitals.... Read more
 
 
 
 
    Idhasoft to improve U of Penn tracking software
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University of Pennsylvania Health System Department of pharmacy selected Idhasoft mobility Division to achieve data accuracy through Customized Integrated... Read more
 
 
  
 
    TCG Lifesciences conferred ‘Excellence Award’ by Institute of Economic Studies
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TCG Lifesciences Limited has been conferred with ‘Excellence Award’ and its Managing Director, Swapan Bhattacharya with ‘Udyog Rattan’, by one of India’s premier research institutes ‘Institute of Economic Studies’ (IES)... Read more
 
 
 
 
GOVERNMENT NEWS
    Loans to hospitals no longer commercial real exposure
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Loans extended by banks to hotels and hospitals may no longer be treated as commercial real exposure. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently revised norms on real estate exposure where it included loans extended against securit... Read more
 
 
 
 
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    Global resource for free ehealth education
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Health Sciences Online has launched a website where anyone can access more than 50,000 courses, references, guidelines, and other expert-reviewed, high-quality, current, cost-free, and ad-free health sciences resources... Read more
 
 
 
 
    New data tools on how infectious diseases spread
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The European Science Foundation (ESF) has called for development of new mathematical and statistical tools capable of probing deeper into existing databases relating to human contact and pathogens... Read more
 
 
 
 
    GCS to pump in INR 722 cr to upgrade Cancer Hospital
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The executive board and general board of GCS, which runs the Cancer hospital, recently approved an ambitious plan to to convert the hospital into a super speciality cancer care and research institute that will provide treatment at par with international standards... Read more
 
 
 
 
    Apollo Hospitals, Well Point sign agreement
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Apollo Hospitals recently said it has entered into an agreement with US-based Anthem Well Point through its subsidiaries for treating patients recommended by the insurance company... Read more
 
 
 
 
    American Journal of Medicine launches blog
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The American Journal of Medicine (AJM) has launched a blog to create a dynamic forum where physicians and other healthcare professionals can discuss the research and applications for clinical practice that have been published in the Journal... Read more
 
 
 
 
 
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