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QCI
to draft accreditation standards for hospitals
Close on the heels of Indian Healthcare Federation
(IHF), Indian Council for Healthcare Accreditation
(ICHA), Indian Medical Association (IMA) and Association
of Medical Consultants (AMC) taking initiatives
in accreditation, now the Quality Council of India
(QCI), an autonomous body under the ministry of
commerce and industry, is drafting standards to
be followed by healthcare institutions in the country
for accreditation.
Health
ministry to launch Masters course in health management
In order to improve the delivery of healthcare at
the district and sub-district level, the health
ministry has asked four reputed institutes in the
field of healthcare to develop a two-year multi-institutional
management programme in healthcare. |
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| In The News |
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Is
HIV drug resistance testing the need of the hour?
Chennai
dental surgeons launch a unique dental company
PEDICON
2005 to stress on total healthcare for all
Is
it time to legalise euthanasia?
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‘Imaging
products should be exempted from tax’
Dhandapany Ragavan currently
heads the medical division of Siemens Limited.
He joined Siemens in the year 1983 as a trainee
and handled many functions in different divisions
and at different locations in the country. In
1991, he was sent to Germany for further training
for a period of ten months. He joined medical
solutions division as a chief financial officer
in the year 1999. After a five months information
programme in US and Germany, he took over as head
of sales and marketing in October 2003. In an
interview with Falaknaaz Syed, Ragavan discusses
the future plans of his company, its strategies
and the medical imaging industry in general.
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Conclusive
debate needed
Public
hearings and litigations: the new medicine for
policy reform
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| Management |
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Improving
hospital's performance through balanced score
card approach
Cost
containment in hospitals
Offshore
outsourcing in healthcare: Avoiding the traps
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| Anaesthesiology |
The
development and evolution of anaesthesiology
Once a patient asked me if I was the doctor who
was going to put him to sleep - and my reply was,
“No, I am the one who is going to make sure
that you wake up!” From ‘gasman’
to anaesthetist to anaesthesiologist to critical
care specialist, the speciality has come a long
way. The anaesthesiologist is the peri-operative
physician. |
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Confronting
commercialisation of healthcare
Recently I came across
an interesting book, "The People's Health
Sourcebook". Section 5 of this book was of
particular interest to me, I have used its title
as the title of this article.
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| Pharma |
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Toxicology
studies of new antivenom completed
Task
force to evolve novel mechanisms for price monitoring
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| Technology |
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‘TENS
is an effective technology for women suffering
from dysmenorrhoea’
Total
Hospital Information System, a union of HIS and
ERP solutions
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| Research |
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Routine
treatment for head injury may do more harm than
good: Study
A major, international
Medical Research Council (MRC) study has found
that corticosteroids, which have been used to
treat head injuries around the world for more
than 30 years, increase the risk of death within
the first two weeks after treatment.
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‘LNJP
is an alternative to AIIMS’
In
Memorium
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