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IT
in Healthcare
Telemedicine: Is it in anyway beneficial for 620 million rural
Indian?
Recently, President Dr APJ Kalam re-emphasized the strengthening
of primary healthcare infrastructure through telemedicine.
Upcoming
telemedicine projects
‘Competition
will benefit consumers in terms of product and price’
B K Kulkarni, general manager, Hospital Information Systems,
Siemens Information Systems Ltd, Bangalore speaks to Vijaya
K on the vital role played by IT in delivering quality care
and the challenging task ahead of the IT solution providers.
Infolife’s
“EasyHMS” a unique software solution for hospitals
EasyHMS, Easy Hospital Management Systems, a product from
the Bangalore-based Infolife Technologies has carried out
more than 10 successful healthcare software (EasyHMS) implementations
in Bangalore and Mangalore.
TeleVital:
Empowering medical service providers
TeleVital, headquartered in California, was set up with
a mission to empower medical service providers to monitor,
diagnose, treat and manage patients without the barriers of
time and distance.
Size
of vendor company does matter
Evaluating vendors who provide healthcare solutions is
often a task, which is, passed around by decision makers.
One of the reasons is that no one wants to be responsible
for the failure of an implementation.
Medcast,
the latest concept in information technology
Internet has not been seen as a viable tool for highly
dynamic information exchanges (such as live video productions
with user interactivity, or virtual environments).
‘We
hope to locate telemedicine units in units in engineering
colleges’
He refers telemedicine as “my baby”. Rightly so. Dr K
Ganapathy, medical director, department of telemedicine, Apollo
hospitals, is credited with the introduction of the first
formal telemedicine centre in Aragonda village of Andhra Pradesh,
linking it with Apollo hospital, Chennai.
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