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COVER STORY

Healthcare In India

Miles To Go

If national and global
targets of healthcare are
to be achieved, large-
scale reforms are the right first step. The potential is there to be exploited. And by all means it is more about when India will take the right steps than whether it will at all.

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Healthcare Management

Healthcare in India

Miles to go

India is the leading supplier of generics to the world and yet in India healthcare for all is a chimera. Research-oriented Indian pharmaceutical companies spend less than 10 per cent of their sales on research.

Medical Sciences

Circulating Nucleic Acids in Plasma & Serum

A non-invasive approach

CNAPS offers a non-invasive approach to a wide range of clinical disorders that will allow the basic information necessary not only for use in predictive medicine but also for direct use in acute medicine.

Surgical Speciality

Surgery for Acute

Heart failure

As we consider the surgical approach to heart failure, it is helpful to distil physiological themes that support pharmacologic treatment such as reduction of after-load to the heart or increased force of contraction.

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Diagnostics

Three-dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography

Early experiences

Imaging, especially echocardiography, plays a key role in structural, congenital and valvular heart disease interventions; not only for the evaluation of the disease and selection of eligible patients, but also for guidance of the procedures and in follow-up examinations.

Technology, Equipment & Devices

Healthcare IT Spending

Effects of a changing global economy

A prolonged or deeper economic slowdown will inevitably be met by further reductions in IT capital and operating budgets, so, even those health IT initiatives that have a demonstrated ROI could become difficult to fund. The IT services and solution providers have to prepare themselves and develop some quick strategies to respond to the changed client behaviour and market conditions in healthcare expected in 2009 and 2010.

Facilities & Operations Management

Technology and Patient Safety

Capturing the power of technology

While healthcare is beneficial in the aggregate, it may also result in harm. Information technology may be used in a variety of ways to improve the safety and efficiency of healthcare.

Information Technology

SOA for Healthcare

Promises and pitfalls

To realise the benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) adoption, including cost-efficiency, adaptability, leverage of legacy systems, and the business agility required to meet new healthcare needs, healthcare organisations must adopt a realistic strategy, establish effective SOA governance processes,.

Advisory Board

John R Adler
Professor of Neurosurgery and Director

Malcom J Underwood
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Department of Surgery

Sandy Lutz
Director, Health Research Institute Pricewaterhouse Coopers, USA

Peter Gross
Chairman, Internal Medicine, Hackensack University Medical Center, USA

Pradeep Chowbey
Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa)

John R Hawkins
Director, Information and Technology Services

Basri JJ Abdullah
Professor, Department of Biomedical Imaging

Vivek Desai
Managing
Director,
HOSMAC INDIA PVT. LTD.,
India

Steven Yeo
Vice President and Executive Director, HIMSS Asia Pacific, Singapore

Beverly A Jensen
Professor of Neurosurgery and Director

Harald Becher
Professor, Cardiac Ultrasound, Oxford University, UK

Gabe Rijpma
Health and Social Services Industry Director

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Healthcare Articles

Materials Management in Healthcare

A patient-centred approach

Materials management plays a crucial role in providing efficient healthcare by touching three vital aspects of medical supplies used in the hospital viz.,...

Interview

International Quality Accreditations

An accreditation is a way to distinguish a hospital...

Healthcare Bookshelf

Evidence-Based Infectious Diseases (Evidence-Based Medicine)

Author - Mark Loeb; Fiona Smaill; Marek Smieja

Research Insights

A Novel Diagnostic Target in the Hepatitis C Virus Genome

This study indicates a way to fundamentally improve HCV viral load monitoring and infection screening.

Donor-Derived Brain Tumor Following Neural Stem Cell Transplantation in an Ataxia Telangiectasia Patient

The neuronal stem/progenitor cells may be involved in gliomagenesis and provide the first example of a donor-derived brain tumor.

Projects

Columbia Asia plans to set up six hospitals in Malaysia

Columbia Asia has announced its plan to build six midsize hospitals in the coming two years in Malaysia with an investment of US$ 103 million.

Techno Trends

Hybrid Linac-MRI System developed by University of Alberta

Scientists of Cross Cancer Institute at the University of Alberta, USA are developing new medical imaging system- Hybrid Linac-MR.

Industry Reports

Global Telemedicine Market 2008-2012

TechNavio Insights

Issues such as absence of global regulatory framework, lack of basic IT infrastructure, reimbursement policies, and legal constraints hinder the growth of the Telemedicine market.