VerticalTalk Healthcare e-Newsletter Volume 3, No.6, 2008
VeticalTalk Healthcare e-Newsletter - Asian Healthcare

PHRs

Challenges and opportunities
in Primary Care

News
Press Releases
Book Shelf
Aortic Arch Surgery
Joseph S Coselli, Scott A LeMaire
Endoscopic Mucosal Resection
Massimo Conio, Peter D Siersema, Alessandro Repici, Thierry Ponchon
Events
Visage Images
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Personal Health Records in Primary Care - Challenges and opportunities

Personal health records are important in improving the quality and patient-centeredness of care and, are an essential step to create an effective medical home. However, the informatics need of the primary care setting creates challenges to integrate a PHR into daily practice and also generate new opportunities.

Stephen J Morgan
Consultant, Clinical Informatics, Partners HealthCare, USA
  Research Insights
Long-Term Interleukin-6 Levels and Subsequent Risk of Coronary Heart Disease -
Two New Prospective Studies and a Systematic Review

Long-term IL-6 levels are associated with CHD risk about as strongly as are some major established risk factors, but causality remains uncertain. These findings highlight the potential relevance of IL-6-mediated pathways to CHD.
 
Macquarie University to set up new Private Hospital in Australia
Macquarie University and Dalcross Private Hospital based in North Ryde, New South Wales in Australia have announced plans for a joint venture to build a private hospital with an investment of US$ 80 million.
KPC to build a Healthcare City in West Bengal, India
KPC Healthcare Services has revealed its plans to build an integrated healthcare city in West Bengal, India with the budget of US$ 325 million approximately.
 
 
Queen's University introduces innovative antennas
Experts at Queen's University have introduced a new type of antenna that is up to 50 times better and efficient than the existing designs.
Aquilion ONE, the World's first dynamic volume computed tomography system by Toshiba
Toshiba has introduced a new computed tomography (CT) system scanner that creates detailed 3-D movies of entire organs in real time.
 
 
Medical Tourism
Ian Youngman, Specialist writer / researcher

Too many hospitals, governments and agencies do claim ludicrously high figures, but there is general agreement that the top four Asian countries (India, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand) get in excess of one and a half million medical tourists a year.

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