Karnataka introduces rural health insurance scheme
The state government of Karnataka, in association with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has taken the lead to offer health insurance to its rural population.

IHF and AoH to formulate accreditation guidelines
After EPOS, ICRA and Crisil, it is the turn of Indian Healthcare Federation (IHF), 300-strong-conglomeration of hospitals, pharmaceuticals, insurance companies and TPAs, and Association of Hospitals (AoH), a consortium of 37 Mumbai-based hospitals, to work on accreditation of healthcare institutes.

Popularize Health Insurance
Rate setting for hospital services
No case of actionable negligence will arise unless the `duty to be careful’ exists
Anthrax vaccine to be available in market soon

Expansion marks private sector investments in ‘02
The year 2002 has been eventful for the Indian healthcare sector. Never mind the fact that the government, despite numerous pleadings, is yet to accord the status of ‘infrastructure’ sector to healthcare, nor has it agreed to provide certain sops private players have been asking year after year.

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Legalities

Corruption mars India’s healthcare system
While investigating famine and typhus for the Prussian Government in 1847 a military doctor, Rudolph Virchow, became convinced that the causes lay in social evils that could only be rectified by reform.

Technology

AICOG 2003

Bangalore flags off 4-day gynaec, obstetrics meet
‘Govt should not phase out the post of honorary consultants’
‘We need better infrastructure at primary level’
KHSDP to set up diagnostic centres in dist hospitals
'India lags in rural gynaec services’

Can ‘studies’ be markers for addressing healthcare?
Talking of ‘studies’, there is a study that indicates that the grand children of the ‘overeaters’ and the obese suffer from diabetes.