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eHealth

  • India: Maharashtra: Your health history at the click of a mouse

    Your visit to any civic hospital could soon be hassle free and more fruitful. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is undertaking a pilot project that would ensure that the doctors looking after your medication have access to all the details of your health history that will eventually help in a more effective treatment.

    The BMC is doing this as part of its ongoing e-governance project that it started three years ago with an aim to link all its hospitals online. The project is to come into effect in two weeks.

  • India: Medical aid may break vertical barrier

    The govt asks airlines to instal telemedicine system on board to help ailing passengers

    Ever wondered what help the cabin crew of any airline can offer if you suffer a medical emergency such as a heart attack, haemorrhage, breathing trouble or what is called as the "Economy Class Syndrome" mid-air? Existing guidelines require every flight to carry a first-aid box for treating small injuries, a physician's box with life saving drugs and oxygen supply. But these things often fall short of requirements during an emergency.

  • India: Medical treatment at doorstep for poor Gujarat tribals

    For decades, people in the tribal areas of Gujarat have had to travel hundreds of kilometres to get proper medical treatment. But today telemedicine is giving them access to modern healthcare without undertaking the costly and tiresome journeys.

    Five super speciality hospitals in big cities and towns - two in Ahmedabad, and one each in Nadiad, Vadodara and Surat - have been linked with small hospitals in remote areas through the telemedicine network.

  • India: New Dehli: AIIMS to go ‘near-paperless’ soon

    The All-India Institute of Medical Sciences is taking its first step towards becoming a “near-paperless” institution, thereby turning environment-friendly.

    The first phase of the initiative will begin by making available patients’ medical history online. The in-house programme has been built with the aim of making available instantly, anytime, anywhere medical information and records of patients coming to the Institute.

  • India: Nilekani likely to create database for e-health card

    The health ministry has sought the Unique Identification Number Authority of India project head Nandan Nilekani’s assistance in creating a database of children from humble background who could be allotted electronic health cards. The cards would be handed over to parents and guardians of the children who would form part of the database. This would enable them access to free medical treatment in all the state-owned hospitals including primary healthcare centres. The decision was formalised on Wednesday at a meeting between Nilekani and minister of state for health and family welfare Dinesh Trivedi.

  • India: Now, telemedicine set to SMS blood pressure report to your doc

    If you are worried about your fluctuating blood pressure or are scared that blood sugar level might shoot up after that heavy lunch, rest assured help is now at hand. It has come in the form of mobile handsets which can connect to blood pressure or glucose measuring devices and transfer the test results to a doctor’s cellphone via sms.

    PGI will soon introduce such bluetooth-enabled cellphones which can transfer physiological data from a measuring device to a doctor’s cellphone. The revolutionary technique is part of the three-year telemedicine project at PGI, funded by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

  • India: NPPA introduces e-filing system for faster drug price approval

    The National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority (NPPA) has introduced voluntary online e-filing system for pharmaceutical companies to send their applications to NPPA for approval or revision of price of scheduled drug formulations and the price list under Form-III, Form-IV and Form-V of Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) 1995.

    Implementation of the system is a step forward in various e-governance initiatives taken up by NPPA. The online e-filing would facilitate NPPA in compiling the applications at faster pace for efficient delivery of service, said a release from the price controlling body.

  • India: Odisha: Telemedicine Centre inaugurated at Puri

    A Telemedicine Centre was inaugurated in this pilgrim city by the Jagannath temple Chief Administrator Pradip Kumar Mahapatra in a formal function held here today.

    Odisha Trust for Technical Education and Training (OTTET) with technical support from Sanjay Gandhi post graduate institute of medical science (SGPGIMS), Lucknow has initiated this project.

    Kedarnath Bhagat, spokesperson of OTTET said the patients of the state and this district could now get easy access to the specialists doctors working in AIIMS and other reputed hospitals and colleges of the country.

  • India: Orissa: 'Take telemedicine facility to villages'

    Governor Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare has stressed on extending the facility of telemedicine to the village-level so that the suffering populace can gain access to specialists and top doctors for effective treatment and advice.

    Addressing the valedictory session of the two-day annual conference of National Medicos Organisation (NMO) here, Bhandare also called for strengthening the primary and community health centres, which are the base of the rural healthcare system.

  • India: Orissa: Telemedicine should be available to all: Governor

    “Telemedicine, designated with the application of modern technology including IT is one of the most important advances in medical science and should be availed by setting up of centres with latest facilities in the villages to connect the patients with the specialised and top doctors of the country" said governor Mr MC Bhandare at the valedictory function of the two-day annual conference of National Medicos Organization (NMO) here today.

    Underscoring the effective functioning of primary health care centres and community health centres, considered as the cornerstone of the rural health care system, the governor reiterated the government’s commitment in the health sector referring to programmes like NRHM.

  • India: Punjab Governor launches e-health project in Malwa region

    Breaking new grounds in revolutionizing Health Care system, the Punjab Governor and Administrator, UT, Chandigarh, General (Retd.) Dr. S.F. Rodrigues, PVSM VSM, Wednesday launched E-Clinic at village Mallan in this rural belt of Malwa region .

    Jean Rodrigues wife of Governor,S. Manpreet Singh Badal Finance Minister Punjab and, Dr. Allen Hammond,Chairman Amit Jain, Director Naandi Foundation were present on the occasion.

  • India: Radiologists in Bihar Government Hospitals Go Hi-tech

    Radiologists in government hospitals in Bihar will now be able to access patient reports online.

    As a part of its e-government initiative, the Bihar government has asked Pune based Sadhna Group and Medsynaptic to connect diagnostic imaging centers and government hospitals to a central server. The project is expected to go live in six months.

  • India: Railways to expand telemedicine network

    Taking medical facilities to far-flung areas, the Indian Railways have decided to expand their telemedicine network across the country.

    “Currently available in 18 places including Rangia, Badarpur, Guwahati, Sonpur, Ratlam, Bhavnagar, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Chennai, Vadodara and Rajkot, the telemedicine facility will soon be accessible in about 20 more places in Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Oriss a, Karnataka and Goa'' said a senior railway official.

  • India: SANA, Narayana Hrudayalaya to launch m-Health project

    In a novel attempt to ensure early screening and detection of chronic diseases in India, Bangalore based Narayana Hrudayalaya and SANA (a research group at Harvard/MIT) have joined hand to launch a mobile healthcare project that promises to become cost effective and easily accessible for the treatment of patients.

    India is experiencing a double burden of disease with persistent infectious disease coupled with increasing incidence of chronic disease like cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Unfortunately, due to lack of specialists care in rural areas, most chronic diseases are diagnosed at an advanced stage, when treatment becomes complicated and expensive.

  • India: Sibal calls for dedicated satellite for better health services in remote areas

    Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Kapil Sibal today called for a dedicated satellite for providing health services to the people in remote areas.

    Speaking after formally launching the Telemedicine facility for the rural areas at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here, he said the country with 17000 hospitals and half a million doctors has the potential to give its people the best health care facilities.

  • India: Standards for telemedicine still in cold storage

    Almost three years after the Department of Information Technology (DIT) came out with a draft report on defining standards for telemedicine in India, these standards still remain to be notified. “This project was undertaken by DIT almost three years ago when I was part of the department”. Two high level groups had undertaken studies on defining standards on telemedicine and health information infrastructure.

    However, I am not aware if these draft reports have been internalised by the department of health,” Rajeeva Ratna Shah, member-secretary, Planning Commission said on Friday.

  • India: Tamil Nadu Govt to launch telemedicine project

    The Tamil Nadu Government is likely to launch a telemedicine project to link government district headquarters hospitals, an expert has said.

    As a pilot project, the Royapettah Government Hospital would be linked with six Government Headquarters Hospitals at Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur, Tiruvannamalai, Krishnagiri, Rameswaram and Udhagamandalam, Chennai Adyar Cancer Institute Managing Director T Rajkumar told reporters here yesterday.

  • India: Tamil Nadu villages get Internet, telemedicine facilities

    A community project to provide high speed Internet, telemedicine, e-education and e-governance services to the rural areas of Tamil Nadu was made operational Wednesday in Vadugambadi, about 60 km south of state capital Chennai. The facilities will be provided for the first time in India with the High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) and Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) systems under the Gramjyoti programme of the central government.

    There are plans to bring about 100,000 villages under the fold of the programme. In Tamil Nadu, global technology firm Ericsson is providing the HSPA technology. But what was launched in Vadugambadi is only an experimental project.

  • India: Tamil Nadu: ‘Click clinics’: Consult specialist online for care

    Traffic jams, parking woes and crowded, smelly hospital consultation rooms making you put off that much-needed trip to the doctor? Enter the era of virtual consultation rooms, a fast flourishing means of contacting your doctor over the Internet, built on the premise that 80 per cent of patients’ simple problems do not require physical examination.

    Even as these ‘click clinics’ from the UK and USA have been catering to Indian patients for quite some time now, desi websites, with an impressive line-up of specialists, are gaining in popularity as they are cheaper and Indian doctors are easier to interact with.

  • India: Tamil Nadu: Building mobile health

    Mobile wireless technologies have the potential to aid speedy disease detection, treatment, and monitoring in remote communities. When combined with the power of computers and special software, they can work in real time and enable interventions by health authorities to prevent communicable diseases from turning into epidemics.

    The experience gained from a two-year bio-surveillance programme in Tamil Nadu's Sivaganga district indicates that this elegant idea, of using mobile phones and computers to generate and analyse health data, can deliver good results.

    The project, led by the Rural Technology and Business Incubator of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and LIRNEasia, a Colombo-based ICT policy think tank, is worth studying as a model.

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