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Topic of the week : RFID technology supporting the management of medical supplies in healthcare institutions. Go to Topic

Discuss the importance of RFID in healthcare: Building a platform for RFID...

RFID in Healthcare –A panacea for the regulations and issues affecting the industry?

It is known as radio Frequency Identification Technology What are its application in healthcare services Some of them are :- Hospital and Medical Device Company Applications Medical Device and Asset Tracking RFID has strong application potential with medical device companies. The FDA requires medical device companies to be able to identify each unit by serial number. Medical device companies need better control of implants on consignment with hospitals because returns can occur more than 50 per

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Do you think that taking initiative to start NCHRH is the right step by Ministry of Health , Government of India..

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	Argument added by Prasad PN, Consultant, Trainer \| Topic: The Globalization of Health Care \| 3 months ago
	In a state where there are 400 engineering colleges why restrict medical colleges to 10? The move by government should liberalise the medical education with at least one medical college in every district to start with - like the government of Tamil...

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NABH accreditation for Indian hospitals: A new Paradigm of Quality Management in Hospitals..

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	Referred by prem prakash, Hospital Administrator, O.P.Jindal Institute of Cancer & Research, Hisar ,India \| 4 months ago
	Quality is some how described as the bottom ingredient of any service or product while measuring its value, worth, grade attribute with other products or service. Quality has all together different component for healthcare hospitals involving aspects...

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Way of Controlling Healthcare Costs?

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	Idea added by Prasad PN, Consultant, Trainer \| Topic: GDP- Relevance in Healthcare \| 2 months ago
	The cost is relative to supply and demand. With choking the output of doctors enrolling in UG and PG courses in the guise of Quality is the root cause for high costs in India. Time has come to get into mission mode to create one medical college in...

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Standardising the Hospital Service Pricing.

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	Referred by prem prakash, Hospital Administrator, O.P.Jindal Institute of Cancer & Research, Hisar ,India \| 4 months ago
	Few of the medical items like essential drugs are under government control which means that most of the lives saving drugs have been conserved by the government all such drugs are available at a nominal price fixed by the government. But such steps by...

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GDP -relevance in Healthcare

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	Commented by PREM PRAKASH, Hospital Administrator, O.P.Jindal Institute of Cancer & Research \| Topic: GDP- Relevance in Healthcare \| 8 days ago
	Could it be that the GDP, that gold standard of economic data, might not be the best way to gauge a nation's relative prosperity? Since it became the prime economic indicator during the Second World War (to monitor war production) many have criticized...

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Information technology in healthcare: Creating a stronger healthcare system

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	Commented by Justin B, Director, Health Light \| Topic: Emerging Technologies Help Consumers Enjoy Higher Healthcare Standards \| 2 months ago
	Please refer this website that is getting launched with all you said and trying to address your maximum needs www.healthlight.in

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Q & A in "IT Services - Healthcare"

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In which website i get technology teaching software?

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	Answered by Leena Pawar, Tech Architect, IT Infotech \| Topic: Software \| 17 days ago
	Yes I too have seen many interactive videos in youtube. It is better compared to the tutorials available in the websites. This lectures are given by experts in the specific field. I think that will help you.........

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Why indian Healthcare is becoming unafordable day by day?

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	Referred by prem prakash, Hospital Administrator, O.P.Jindal Institute of Cancer & Research, Hisar ,India \| 4 months ago
	Why indian Healthcare is becoming unafordable day by day?

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GDP- Relevance in Healthcare Go to Topic

Top 10 Trends in Healthcare

America is undergoing a dramatic shift in healthcare. Actually, ten distinctly different shifts. Although the changes are unsettling, and will cause dislocations in our economy, the overall trends are positive and will help us all be healthier and wealthier when it all shakes out. Western Medicine Costs Continue to Rise It's hard to imagine, but the cost of going to a regular MD or hospital is going to get more and more expensive. This is not because doctors or hospitals are getting greedy, but

Is the macro perspective more relevant than the micro one?

Macro Impact

Micro Impact

Macroeconomics is flashier. It touches on GDP, inflation, unemployment and other things you read about in the newspaper. By itself macroeconomics is half of economics. It examines the economy in the large, focusing on feedback from one component...

Microeconomics focuses more on basic theories of supply and demand and how businesses decide how much of something to produce and how much to charge for it. Micro is the basic level and all other economic theory gets built on top of it. Micro...

Emerging Technologies Help Consumers Enjoy Higher Healthcare Standards Go to Topic

How will Medical informatics help in the Health care industries??


	3 Telemedicine
	1 Computer-based patient record
	0 Computer-assisted surgery

Information technology in healthcare: Creating a stronger healthcare system

Imagine going to your doctor's office or the hospital without having to write down all of your personal information and trying to remember each detail of your medical history. I will love that... A statewide health information system would allow patient data, details about health care coverage and medical procedures to easily move between doctors' offices, hospitals and insurance companies. That's exactly what health and information technology officials want. They're meeting with hospitals, ins

Bioinformatics and Computer Applications in Biotechnology Go to Topic

Bioinformatics Career Prospects

The bioinformatics jobs market has changed considerably in the past few years and can be attributed to a number of factors, mainly the increase in the number of bioinformatics academic programs, leading to an increase in the number of graduates chasing jobs, the steady decrease in the rate of increase of bioinformatics jobs, and the almost flattening of the amount of investments in the biotechnology sector. All this have led to an increasingly harder market for recent graduates. The increases

Bioinformatics, Bio-medicine and Gene Manipulation in Drug Development and Future Medical Care

BIOINFORMATICS, BIO - MEDICINE, AND GENE MANIPULATIONS IN DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND FUTURE MEDICAL CARE. Bioinformatics is an emerging science which brings together the fields of Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Bio Technology and Genetics under the fold of computers and Software Advances in Computer Technology. The Bioinformatics is changing the entire concept, in future we may be compelled to view life and disease through the Chemistry of Genes. The facts about the human genome project were made p

Biomarkers - Leading the Way for Personalized Medicine and Drug Development Go to Topic

How can the Biomarkers bring revolution in the Biotech industry?


	1 Detecting Various Cancers
	1 MANIFOLD BENEFITS
	1 Monoclonal Antibodies (MoAb)

Biomarkers to predict your age now...!!

hello friends, This is a very interesting article and a new discovery. So I thought I would share it with you all. Biomarkers of aging identified In a first of its kind study, scientists at the Buck Institute for Age Research have uncovered biomarkers of aging, which can predict both chronological and physiological age. Biomarkers are biochemical features that can be used to measure the progress of disease or the effects of treatment. The scientists conducted the study by using nematode worms,

Interpreting the Impact of the Integration of Healthcare, Financial Services and Technology on the Consumer Go to Topic

How Financial Crisis will Impact Healthcare?


	1 Recruiting
	1 I do not expect it to be more than marginal.
	1 Layoffs

Information technology in healthcare: Creating a stronger healthcare system

New Drugs Value Creation Go to Topic

Invitro testing - Can they replace animal testing?.

Yes

yes, we can replace animal studies with in-vitro studies but there are limitations like we can not test antiepileptic effects or antipsychotic effect. all we can do it that try to reduce the use of animals for that we should knpw the 4R consept

I agree that ATC techniques has made tremendous advances in the recent past, even chip technologies have been devised to evaluate the drug actions, however, the simulation of the entire body using these techniques is still far away at the present...

Challenges in the Drug Discovery Process


	2 Ethical issues
	1 Integration of complex and disconnected data sets.
	1 Drug Discovery Approach

Trends in healthcare in India and overseas Go to Topic

CANCER

Rabies in India

Rabies in India K S VENKATARAMAN About Rabies 1 Rabies is a viral disease, which is caused by the RNA virus of family Rhabdoviridae and genus Lyssa. Many types of animals can carry the rabies virus including cats, dogs, skunks, bats, monkeys, raccoons, foxes, jackals, mongoose, wolves and other carnivorous wild animals. But the dogs, especially stray dogs are singularly the major cause, leaving others far behind in offence. Bites by all these animals can turn to be dangerous. Bugs, bees, to

Software Go to Topic

That is TMS??

Software aided prescribing

Software aided prescribing will improve patient outcomes

Software aided prescribing will only increase patient burden

yes it can facilitate the prediction of how cases are likely to be decided, prescribe decisions that should be reached in such cases, and help administrate more efficiently the court process. It can also help doctors to perform administrative...

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Investing in Healthcare Go to Topic

Discrimination- a weapon or war.

Discrimination is a managerial weapon.

Discrimination is a war between group of employees.

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I personally feel that discrimination is group dynamics most of the times it is not personal ,in most of the institutions people collaborate to satisfy their ego or they have opportunistic attitude towards growth. but there are sufficient...

Do we need a seperate Act like Hospital & Healthcare Establishment Act in India.

Yes

I fully support such initiatives as government is neglecting healthcare for very long period and this is the reason we are still behind countries like China.

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The Impact of Social Media in Health Care Go to Topic

Diets and health foods

that diet and energy foods definitely offer improvements

that diet and energy foods may not offer improvements

Not all the food materials can give all types of necesary elements to our body. There are many things which many food items lack. For example, milk, which is known as complete food, actually lacks iron in it. Somebody, solely relying on it will...

I have a strong sense that many of these supplements have no scientific or demographic data as a back up.

Medical Care – Quick & Quack System.


	1 Quick & Quack System in Medical care.

importance of technology in healthcare

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GDP- Relevance in Healthcare

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Emerging Technologies Help Consumers Enjoy Higher Healthcare Standards

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Bioinformatics and Computer Applications in Biotechnology

The field of computer applications in biotech is a complex hybrid of two...

Biomarkers - Leading the Way for Personalized Medicine and Drug Development

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