eHEALTH Weekly Newsletter :: 27January - 2 February 2009 Vol. III Issue 4   
 
 
TOP STORIES
    India hounours its doctors on the occasion of Republic Day
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The President of India has conferred nineteen Padma Awards for the year –2009. These awards were announced on the eve of Republic Day. eHEALTH wishes... Read more
 
 
 
 
    Philips leads European SonoDrugs project
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Royal Philips Electronics recently announced that it is leading a major new European project to develop drug delivery technologies that could significantly impact the treatment of cancer and cardiovascular disease... Read more
 
 
 
 
    India's first GMP compliant plasma fractionation facility
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Celestial Biologicals Limited (CBL), an associated company of Intas Biopharmaceuticals Limited, and GE Healthcare, the USD 17 billion healthcare business of General Electric Company, announced recently a collaboration to set up India's first Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)... Read more
 
 
 
 
    Kokilaben Hospital inaugurated
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The Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Research Centre, part of a social initiative by the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), was inaugurated on recently by Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan in Mumbai.... Read more
 
 
 
 
    KTwo unveils low cost tele-diagnostics devices
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KTwo Technology Solutions, a 200 plus people Bangalore based company and an Intel India Design house vendor unveiled its Healthcare device... Read more
 
 
  
 
GOVERNMENT NEWS
    Jordan picks Perot to help implement VistA
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Perot Systems Corporation has been selected by the Kingdom of Jordan to manage the pilot deployment of the open source clinical information system VistA at two hospitals and a clinic in the capital, Amman... Read more
 
 
 
 
    Australia eHealth system in the mill
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The standards and foundations for nation-wide e-health solutions in Australia have now mainly been completed, according to Peter Fleming, Chief Executive Officer of National E-Health Transition Authority(NEHTA)... Read more
 
 
 
 
    Bangladesh introduces telehealth services
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From February onwards, the Bangladesh government will have in place “Telehealth Care Services” at every public hospital in the country. The aim of this project is to make healthcare available to everyone in the country... Read more
 
 
 
 
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
    Elsevier introduce new web-based solution
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Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, medical and technical products and services, recently introduced Reaxys, a new workflow solution for synthetic chemists... Read more
 
 
 
 
    Prague to hold ministerial eHealth conference
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Europe’s seventh and final ministerial e-health conference is to be held next month in Prague, the Czech Republic, 18-20 February... Read more
 
 
 
 
    United Healthcare agrees to pay up
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Two of the largest US health insurers have agreed deals to pay tens of millions of dollars to create independent claims rates databases, following an investigation into claims that databases had been rigged to manipulate payments... Read more
 
 
 
 
    Credit crunch hits UK and US hospitals
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Hospitals in the US and UK are beginning to struggle to raise the funds they need for capital investment in infrastructure and Information technology projects... Read more
 
 
 
 
 
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