ehealth Weekly Newsletter:6

eHEALTH Weekly Newsletter :: 6 - 12 January 2009 Vol. III Issue I

TOP STORIES

Accentia Technologies bags USD 22 mn order in HRCM arena

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	Accentia Technologies Ltd., a leading provider of Healthcare Receivables Cycle Management, has secured an order valued at USD 22 million to service a chain of hospitals in US... Read more

Fortis eyes stakes in hospital chains

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	Fortis Healthcare, which operates a chain of hospitals across India, is seeking to buy a minority stake in Manipal Hospitals and Wockhardt... Read more

Blu - ray archive arrives in India

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	Electronic Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) and 21st Century Health Management Solutions have signed an MoU to jointly set up a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Healthcare ICT and Medical Electronic Solutions to address... Read more

SoftLink International bags the HMIS installation at JIPMER

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	SoftLink International, a leading Software Product company with core focus on Hospital Automation and Medical Imaging, has bagged the prestigious order... Read more

Rockland Hospitals to target tier-II and III cities in North India

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	Rockland Hospitals, a multi-speciality hospital offering health care services with its main branch in New Delhi is planning expansion in Tier-II and Tier-III cities in Northern India like Lucknow, Jaipur, Agra, etc., next year... Read more

Doctor on Call’ on your BPL Mobile now in India

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	For the first time in India, a mobile phone doctor-to-patient service called 'Doctor on Call' will be launched... Read more

GOVERNMENT NEWS

Indian army to modernise Its medical services

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	Last month terror strikes in the country’s financial capital, Mumbai have made India’s Armed Forces to modernise their medical services so as to minimise the reaction time during emergency situation... Read more

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Greek scientists develop heart attack calculator

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	Researchers have developed a quick and easy artificial intelligence approach to successfully calculate a patient’s heart attack risk with respect to many lifestyle factors... Read more

HL7 publishes draft PHR standards

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	The standardisation of Personal Health Records (PHRs) received a boost with the international healthcare IT standards body, Health Level Seven (HL7) publishing a Personal Health Record System Functional Model (PHR-S FM)... Read more

Mobiles to monitor HIV and malaria patients’ conditions

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	Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have created a cell phone that can monitor the condition of HIV and malaria patients and test water quality at disaster sites and undeveloped areas... Read more

Arizona boosts health data system with SAS technology

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	The Arizona Health Query, a project designed to develop and maintain a community health data system for Arizona residents, is using analytics software to integrate and analyse healthcare records... Read more

Research to improve early diagnosis of breast cancer

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	HAMAM - consisting 9 project partners from 7 countries with leading expertise in the field of breast imaging diagnosis are working toward resolving the problem of nnecessary biopsies and tumours... Read more

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