The MoU will come into effect from June5 2015, and will remain effective for a period of three years NATHEALTH signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The Task Force Health Care (TFHC) Working Group India in the presence of The Prime Minister of The Netherlands Mark Rutte. Dutch Ministers Lilianne Ploumen – Foreign Trade…
Keen to realize and implement the proposed India Health Information Network (IHIN) initiative, the Union health ministry has recently constituted a working group to recommend its governance structure. Once the modalities of this network are finalized, it will provide a unique platform for the private players and the government to synergise and work together for…
Insurance repositories are ready to offer general insurance policies in electronic form. By the end of 2015, health and motor insurance policies will be available in electronic. “The data exchange policy has been agreed upon between the General Insurance Counsel and insurance repositories. And the data structure for health and motor insurance has been defined.…
Last year, 18-year-old Nikita Singh came up against that notorious peer pressure to smoke. All her college friends were doing it, and they found her ‘stuck-up’ and ‘old-fashioned’ for being too health-conscious to light up. She smoked her first cigarette a few months later, in June. Only it wasn’t a regular cigarette, but an electronic…
Leading Companies in eHealth, Telemedicine, Connected Health, Informatics, EHR, PHR, Fitness Monitoring, & Remote Diagnostics The advent of connected devices and M2M is offering a tremendous opportunity for healthcare professionals. Near-ubiquitous mobile networks are allowing carers to diagnose, monitor, and communicate with patients with unprecedented speed and efficacy. The emergence of low-cost smartphones has allowed…
The science is overwhelming: regular exercise and a healthy, calorie-conscious diet are the keys to better health. But despite what we know about healthy living, Canadians face an obesity epidemic. Nearly one quarter of all adult Canadians are obese and one in 10 children could be similarly labelled. A little over four per cent of…
It looks like a dangling, shiny plastic charm, but it’s actually an innovative high-tech device that may revolutionize health care in India. This is Khushi Baby, a small medical device designed to streamline the process of vaccinating children in the developing world. “Appreciating the cultural nuances is extremely important when attempting to propose an intervention…
2014 and 2015 have been huge years for digital health: building new solutions to improve and change the healthcare system is more important than ever, and collaboration among various sectors bringing passionate and talented individuals plays a central role. Similarly to any other industry – if there are more diverse people developing more diverse ideas,…
Leonardo DiCaprio, model magnet and environmental activist saving the world one e-cig at a time will regret to learn that electronic cigarettes are just asharmful as first thought. Although it won’t be as big a blow as all those times he learned he didn’t win an Oscar. The American Physiological Society just released a study…
Here’s a little quiz for you. U.S. hospitals’ errors kill more people each year than: A. Breast cancer B. HIV / AIDS C. Cardiovascular disease If you guessed A or B, you’d be right; and you’d be in the minority who recognize just how dangerous a place hospitals can be. Healthcare is a classic information-driven…