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	Roche Diagnostics and BRAHMS announce agreement

	Boston Scientific Announces Japanese Approval of Stent System

	IBA Health Riding the HIS Wave in South East Asia

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	ZOLL launches R Series defibrillator for hospitals

	St. Jude Medical announces FDA approval of New ICD Software

	INDEX Holding and COEX sign agreement

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EMRs Artificial Heart	RFID IVD	HRM Annuloplasty	Patient Flow Shigella Diarrhoea

Electronic Medical Records - Asia gets ready

Interview with Madhav Ragam, Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences, IBM Asia Pacific

Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), or computer-based medical records of patients, have already gained importance in the western world with governments taking up initiatives to implement them across the nations. Comparatively, in Asia, esp. in countries like India and China, there is a long way to go before the benefits of EMRs can be realised. In this exclusive interview with The Healthcare Edge, IBM's Asia Pacific Healthcare and Life Sciences Director, Madhav Ragam, discusses the issues involved in implementing EMRs in the region.

RFID in Healthcare - An enabling technology

Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx

"In healthcare, RFID is preventing errors and crime, saving costs and improving the level of patient care and safety. The market for RFID tags and systems in healthcare will rise rapidly from $90 million in 2006 to $2.1 billion in 2016.RFID sensors enable smart packaging that records when patients take medication and how much they take and provide prompts to help them comply with instructions."

Research Insights

A Multicentre Study of Shigella Diarrhoea in Six Asian Countries: Disease Burden, Clinical Manifestations, and Microbiology

Shigella appears to be more ubiquitous in Asian impoverished populations than previously thought, and antibiotic-resistant strains of different species and serotypes have emerged. Focusing on prevention of shigellosis could exert an immediate benefit first by substantially reducing the overall diarrhoea burden in the region and second by preventing the spread of panresistant Shigella strains.

Healthcare Bookshelf

Patient Flow : Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery
Author(s): Randolph W. Hall

Patient Flow: Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery is dedicated to improving healthcare through reducing the delays experienced by patients. One aspect of this goal is to improve the flow of patients, so that they do not experience unnecessary waits as they flow through a healthcare system. Another aspect is ensuring that services are closely synchronized with patterns of patient demand.

Healthcare Human Resource Management
Author(s): Walter J. Flynn, Robert L. Mathis, John H. Jackson

The unique aspects of healthcare HRM generate a demand for a focused, specialized text. Healthcare Human Resource Management is relevant to instructors in traditional academic settings as well as to practitioners, consultants and other managerial professionals in various healthcare settings like hospitals, nursing homes, physical therapy and long-term rehabilitation facilities, the military and even companies and organizations that are peripheral to those in healthcare settings such as the pharmaceutical industry and government agencies.

Redefining Health Care
Author(s): Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg

The U.S. health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by skyrocketing premiums--not to mention the stability of state and federal government budgets. In Redefining Health Care, internationally renowned strategy expert Michael E. Porter and innovation expert Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg reveal the underlying--and largely overlooked--causes of the problem and provide a powerful prescription for change.

Projects

TechnoTrends

Industry Reports

Trinity multi-speciality unit in Bangalore, India
Trinity Hospital and Heart Foundation's
Rs 40 crore (US$ 8.8mn), 125-bed healthcare centre in Bangalore would have extended facilities such as nephrology, and orthopaedic care and surgery. It is expected launch in the next 18 months.

Wockhardt's Heart Hospital in Surat, India
Wockhardt Hospitalsplans to establish a 120-bed heart hospital in Surat, India, in association with the Seventh Day Adventists Hospital. To be called 'Adventist Wockhardt Heart Hospital', will be operational by 2006 end.

Abiomed - AbioCor® Implantable Replacement Heart
The AbioCor sustains the body’s circulatory system and mimics the function of the human heart. The AbioCor is intended to replace the severely damaged natural heart for patients who have no other treatment alternative.

Medtronic - CG Future® COMPOSITE Annuloplasty Ring
The new CG Future COMPOSITE Ring is the industry's first annuloplasty product providing both semi-rigid posterior remodeling and fully flexible anterior support.

Innovations In Diagnostics - Next generation molecular and POC diagnostics driving personalized healthcare - Business Insights
Although realizing the potential of new technologies will depend on overcoming challenges such as regulatory and reimbursement hurdles, new diagnostic opportunities will expand the IVD market to over $40bn by 2010.

Medical Imaging Markets - Volume I: Radiography - Kalorama Information
Digital technology enables x-ray modalities to detect problem sites more rapidly and with greater accuracy helping the transition from film-based systems to filmless environments.



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