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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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are doctors paid enough for the hard work they do and resposibility and risk they take for saving ones life compared to other

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	Argument added by Dayanand Deshpande, Senior Consultant, Ernst & Young \| Topic: Investing in Healthcare \| 26 days ago
	In my opinion most of the doctors are paid enough for the service they are providing. The self-employed doctors who own or are part owners of their medical practice generally have higher median incomes than salaried physicians. Earnings may vary...

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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 \| 4 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 \| 5 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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Discrimination- a weapon or war.

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	Referred by prem prakash, Hospital Administrator, O.P.Jindal Institute of Cancer & Research, Hisar ,India \| 6 months ago
	In the 21st century most of us do not use the word DISCRIMINATION but it is still available at most of the work places, some people(management) justify it as a part of strategy or business game. most of the institutions have well defined elaborate...

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Software aided prescribing

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	Argument added by Ujwal Chana, Project Lead, Polaris Software \| 11 months ago
	Yes infact this software aided prescribing will improve prescription, as soon as the doctor enters the drug, he will be getting all those conditions about the patient and the stages of the infection or the disease, so with that data he can precisely...

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Medical checkup for travelers returning home from exotic destinations

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	Referred by Muthukumar Balasubramanian, Accounts Manager, LM Ericsson \| 1 year ago
	The speed of global travel and the popularity of adventure tourism both contribute to the risk of importing viruses into the travelers’ countries. A Colorado woman contracted Marburg fever while in Uganda in December 2007 touring an attraction known...

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Managing hospital business in global recession.

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	Referred by prem prakash, SBU/Profit Center Head, Jindal Hospital \| 1 year ago
	During the current recession in global markets, how much is now important to manage hospital healthcare services. How indian hospitals can contribute to give momentum to indian economy not only in indian market but also globally either by giving world...

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Without any standardisation can the HIS implementation be successful?

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	Referred by rama panda, Project Manager, Siemens \| 1 year ago
	Most of the Hospital Information system implementations are big failures considering the time taken or the desired results achieved. No customer is happy with the HIS. This is happening because of non-standadisation of the requirements. Will it not...

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GDP- Relevance in Healthcare Go to Topic

Way of Controlling Healthcare Costs?


	4 Improve Govt. Hospitals quality & care
	1 Reduce hospitalization of patients with high-cost conditions
	0 Government becoming health financier

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

Emerging Technologies Help Consumers Enjoy Higher Healthcare Standards Go to Topic

Can anyone offer me a job in Healthcare or Pharmaceutical Sector.Since and very reliable worker.Further details on request.

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


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

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

Trends in biotechnology

Biotech industry business models have been evolving to product-centered strategies with shorter periods to return on invested capital. "We're seeing a shift from technology-based to product-based companies. Specifically, we're seeing a shift toward drugs as the driver of value, i.e., clinical compounds as opposed to technologies which focused on the upstream processes of drug discovery. The time from the use of these technologies to getting a drug on the market is so long and that protracted ti

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

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

The Benefits, and Potential Side Effects, of Sharing Medical Records Online

Lot has been talk about online sharing of medical records. Shareing medical records onle has got its own benefits. for example a patient who is suffering from various ailments cannot keep records for all but he can go online records which are easy to acess. PHRs as they are popularly called give patients control of their medical records so they can share information as needed with physicians. The goal is to ease the burden and give proper solutions to the problem at hand. But what are the side

New Drugs Value Creation Go to Topic

Invitro testing - Can they replace animal testing?.

Yes

Well ACC techniques are a boon in clinical reaearch. Reasons include: 1. Animal usage for testing is reduced though cannot be completely avoided. 2. Provide a platform for preliminary testings of the drug so that confirmed effective drugs in the...

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

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


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

can india give economical drugs? if yes when or no then why?

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there is a difference in our drug administration other countries administration .Who will see this in one drug there always not having sufficient quantity of drug.Here is having black marketing too. THINK ON THIS............................WHAT...

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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

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

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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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Investment Opporunity in Fastest Growing Segment Healthcare

Opportunity for a lifetime investment to fund or partner as Franchise and Panel for Healthcare Venture. Returns better than any other investment assured. Projected business of Rs 500 crore in 5 yrs The Healthcare Sector has an everlasting growth with increasing diseases and population. Well thought and deliberated on a project with the core team for Healthcare have come up with a unique model of Healthcare Services PAN India. Ready to scale on fast mode Looking for -Investors from 1 lakh to 1 c

The Impact of Social Media in Health Care Go to Topic

Singapore approves five food health claims

The Singapore Agri-Food Veterinary Authority (AVA) has approved five nutrient and product-specific health claims that can now bear a ‘Healthier Choice’ symbol. The claims relate to calcium, vitamin D, sodium,saturated fat and trans fat,fibre and dietary fibre, and products must meet nutrient profiling criteria if they are to utilise the ‘Healthier Choice’ symbol. The claim approvals should encourage healthy food research and development in the area, said Brussels-based nutrition policy consult

A click away to take control of your health

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Certainly yes. without doubt. There are a lot of Info in the internet including feedback posted by consumers on the types of problems and treatment given by various docs ,the result of taking their medicine and also the side effects of the same...

Sai Ram. While the temptation to say yes is very strong, I submit that there are too many websites with such a diverse opinion that many times the patient and the support givers (family and friends, not the health care professionals) are left...

Gross domestice product is a significant indicator of country economic...

Emerging Technologies Help Consumers Enjoy Higher Healthcare Standards

As technology is very much important for every industry, emerging technology...

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

Personalized medicine, the practice of catering therapies to the specific...

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