eHEALTH BureauNine winners and 19 runners up won the coveted Asian Hospital Management Awards (AHMA) 2010 held in August, 2010 at the Grand Hilton Seoul, Korea. Of these, two hospitals from India won the awards.The two entries from India are 'Multi Specialty Surgical Camps' of Simla Sanitarium & Hospital and 'My Sugar' of Apollo Hospitals Hyderabad.In addition, Dr Suck-Chan Rha ...

eHEALTH BureauAccenture and the Institute of Clinical Research in India (ICRI) had announced jointly to develop a Pharmacovigilance and clinical research programme customised to meet the growing industry requirements of the thriving sector. Titled as 'Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Research and Pharmacovigilance,' the programme curriculum will span over a period of 6 to 12 months or an aggregate of ...

eHEALTH BureauGirish Rao, Chief Executive Officer of Nova Medical Centers has recently resigned from the post, as announced by the organisation. Girish Rao will continue to be an Advisor to Nova Medical Centres, though. He will also remain a significant shareholder, investor, and founder of the business, informed Nova.Dr Mahesh Reddy, Executive Director, Nova Medical Centers said, "While we conduct ...

eHEALTH BureauThe Apollo Hospitals Group launched the first standalone dialysis centre in Public Private Partnership with Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS). At present, of the 1.5 lakh new patients who suffer from end-stage renal failure annually, only 3,500 get kidney transplants and 6,000 undergo dialysis. After realising the demand for this service which is only going to rise in future, ...

eHealth BureauSmile on Wheels, a community based self-sustainable heath delivery model will operate in Jaipur in association with Shikshit Rojgar Kendra Prabandhak Samiti (SRKPS) a non-government voluntary organisation engaged in developing sustainable programmes for the marginalised section especially women and children.The project will be implemented in 22 slum areas of Jaipur district. The mobile hospital unit will visit six locations ...

eHealth BureauShailesh Niyogi appointed as the Director - Lokmanya Group of Hospitals. Known as the transformation and Growth Guru in the field of small to medium scale corporate companies, Niyogi will be overseeing the overall development of Lokmanya Hospital. He will be spear heading the brand building and expansion exercise for Lokmanya Group of Hospitals, Pune in other cities in ...

eHealth Bureau Prolor Biotech Inc (PBTH), the biopharma firm utilising a proprietary CTP technology to commercialise longer-acting, biologically improved versions of existing therapeutics, reported receiving FDA regulatory clearance recently for Phase II clinical trials of hGH-CTP, the Company's improved and longer-acting human growth hormone.The CTP technology allows PBTH to isolate short, naturally occurring amino acid sequences and develop them into ...

eHealth Bureau Parliament cleared the amended Indian Medical Council Act bill on Thursday, August 26. The bill proposed to reconstitute the Medical Council of India (MCI) within one year and establish a board of governors, which will the incharge of the MCI's functions.Registering medical practitioners, monitors and gives recognition to medical colleges, and degrees to doctors were among the functions, ...

eHealth Bureau To counter the increasing cases of malaria in the city, Wockhardt Foundation along with BMC (Bombay Municipal Corporation) is carrying out the anti malaria drive across slums of Mumbai, for the months of August and September 2010.Dedicated teams of doctors from Wockhardt Foundation has been constantly on the job and are giving free consultation on the spot, and ...

eHealth Bureau An 'Intelligence Toilet' that provides instant health check up has been developed in Japan. Every time a user answer a call of nature, this high-tech loo analyses their urine, blood pressure, temperature and weight, reports the Sun.Over a couple of seconds it produces a well-being report, which is displayed on a wall-mounted screen. This data can further be ...

eHealth BureauThe Union ministry of home affair's (MHA) directorate of forensic science (DFS) has set the ball rolling for the establishment of a hi-tech Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) on a 25-acre campus at Wadgaon Maval, about 25 kms from here, along the Pune-Mumbai highway, media reports. Apart from the forensic lab, the campus would house the Government Examiner of ...

eHealth BureauThe health ministry has planned to standardise common set of protocols for treatment across the country. For this the ministry has set up an expert panel to draft a set of norms for unified treatment standards expected to be implemented in next three to four months and in hospitals and healthcare service centres in one-two years.This move comes after ...

eHealth BureauAs part of the Cegedim Dendrite alliance program, created to expand its open business model through alliances with leading technology, software and consulting companies, Cegedim Dendrite, world's one of the leading Life Sciences-specific Customer Relationship Management (CRM) providers announced its partnership in India with Take Solutions Ltd. Cegedim Dendrite has a 35% share of the global pharmaceutical CRM market, ...

eHealth Bureau Siemens has launched a new image processing software, which helps cardiologists and cardiac surgeons prepare and perform Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantations (TAVI), Syngo Aortic ValveGuide that automatically reconstructs a 3D representation of the aortic root from CT-like cross-sectional images acquired with the angiography system. The software selects anatomical landmarks as the coronary ostia, for instance, and overlays the ...

CSC announced that Denmark's National Board of Health will go live this summer with its adverse incident reporting solution. This project follows a successful EU tender last autumn to provide the National Board of Health with a web-based solution to allow patients, citizens and healthcare professionals to report adverse incidents in any part of the Danish health system. This deployment ...

As part of the Cegedim Dendrite Alliance Program, created to expand its open business model through alliances with leading technology, software and consulting companies, Cegedim Dendrite today announced its partnership in India with TAKE Solutions Ltd. Cegedim Dendrite is the world's leading Life Sciences-specific Customer Relationship Management (CRM) provider with a 35 percent share of the global pharmaceutical CRM market, ...

Marck Biosciences Ltd., India's leading manufacturer and marketer of sterile dosages and Blow-Fill-Seal (BFS) specialist, scripted a new chapter for the global healthcare industry with the launch of world's first ever Paracetamol IV in plastic pack manufactured using BFS technology.Marck has already received the necessary approvals for its Paracetamol IV and is manufactured at Marck's world class manufacturing facility at ...

The National Institutes of Health has launched a nationwide IT-supported research initiative using human studies to define changes in the human immune system in response to infection or to vaccination.The researchers will take advantage of technological developments and advances in creating databases and developing mathematical models to identify and analyze the complex changes in immune profiles. The funding - a ...

Scottsdale Healthcare in Arizona, US, is testing an implantable device that could prevent cardiac arrests by using electrical impulses to interrupt fatal heart rhythms and restore normal heartbeat.The subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator (S-ICD) is placed under the skin, near the heart, and is capable of delivering electric shocks. Thomas Mattioni, Scottsdale Healthcare's medical director of electrophysiology, said the S-ICD is ...

Joint Commission International once again demonstrates its strong support of Asia's premier educational conference for hospital managers as a Strategic Partner. HMA, now on its ninth year will be held at the Grand Hilton Seoul, Korea on August 19 & 20, 2010.Joint Commission International helps bring Worldwide Hospital Management Thinking and Experience to senior hospital managers in Asia for eight ...

Medicine students starting at Stanford University School of Medicine will this year be given an iPad as part of a trial programme in integrate the mobile device into medical education.Stanford will distribute iPads to its incoming class of 91 first-year medical school and master's of medicine students during orientation later in August. The prestigious medical school aims to use the ...

Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, UK, have developed a brain scan that can detect autism with 90% accuracy.The technique was tested in a study involving 20 autistic adults and 20 non-autistic adults. It involves taking an MRI scan, recreating a 3D image of it and then feeding it into a computer for analysis. Dr Christine ...

In a major decision that was conveyed to the Supreme Court on Friday, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has said that their decision to introduce one common entrance test for all medical courses in India has been accepted by the Union Ministry and would be introduced from the next year, that is, 2011.The new common medical entrance test would ...

The Ethianum in Heidelberg is one of the first clinics in Germany to align itself consistently according to sustainability criteria, thus making it a hospital in keeping with the spirit of Siemens' Green+ Hospital Program. Working in partnership with the Ethianum, Siemens has developed and implemented comprehensive solutions: These include energy management, patient care, and the communications infrastructure. In this ...

The delayed French electronic health record, Dossier Medical Personnel (DM-Personnel), will be launched by the end of the year, according to the agency responsible for the programme.The EHR will allow patients to organise their health records for consultations with their GP and other healthcare providers and give them access to medication histories and a summary of recent appointments. The second ...