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Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, and HIMSS Asia Pacific have announced the finalists of the sixth Asia Pacific HIMSSElsevier Digital Healthcare Award 2018. This award recognizes outstanding achievements and innovations globally in the implementation and usage of health information and technology.
Last month saw the launch of the Ayushman Bharat Yojana by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. It is a bold and ambitious step in the history of healthcare reforms in the nation. For the first time, a government has gone beyond lip sympathy on such a large scale. So what is this scheme all about …
Following its successful health technology start-up acceleration programs in Bangalore last year, Philips has opened applications for its global start-up acceleration program. The theme for this global program across multiple locations, including, US, Europe, India and China is AI in Healthcare.
If you entered a hospital in India, in the year 2030 what would you see? Would you see an OPD with patients milling around, standing in line for the doctor to see them? Will he then be sent from department to department depending on what tests and diagnostics need to be done? Will there be wards with …
A recent article in the BBC talked about a list of 10 cities that would run out of water soon. Second on that list is the garden city, Bangalore. It is not surprising that this issue has come up considering the pollution of the surface water in Bangalore. India ranks 120th among 128 nations on …
According to a recent report by Pharmaion, medical imaging equipment market in India is to cross US$ 1.6 billion by 2021. Majority of this growth is tipped to happen in developing nations such as India and China. Rising patient population, the launch of low-cost diagnostic imaging equipment, the rise in the number of hospitals and …
2018 began on a sad note for me personally with the passing away of my mother, Dr. Prathima Venkateswaran. She was just 70 and her death sums up the challenge we face in healthcare today. But that I would leave for another day. Today I want to just focus on her work. My mother was …
The incident that lead to the license cancellation of the Max Hospital in Shalimar Bagh is a typical case of medical errors that are found across the world. Newborn twins—one stillborn and one alive—were different cases that should have been treated differently. The failure of following protocols resulted in a situation where both the babies …
Last year we had surveyed more than 100 dentists in India, mostly from the metros. Based on the responses we had released a report, that was published by the Indian Dental Association in their newsletter. We are very excited to announce that we have completed the surveys this tear as well and will be publishing …
Recently we came to know about an interesting incident at a corporate wellness camp. The health workers recording the vital statistics of the participants were making key mistakes in recording the observations. A good example was the height of one of the participants was recorded wrongly as 147 centimeters instead of 157. Immediately the participant …