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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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What women wants (Directed by Nancy Meyers) from man?

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	Referred by Chandra shekhar, Content Writer, Leading Clinical Research Company \| 1 year ago

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Why India is not having sky scrapers like other countries in the World?

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	Argument added by Chandra shekhar, Content Writer, Leading Clinical Research Company \| 1 year ago
	Dear Anjaneyula, you are right that India lacks skilled technicians, but what if government is able to bring those skilled professionals back to India? what would be the other supporting factors. As you are from the real background i.e. construction i...

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Is Nokia 6700 slide a complete phone? If no, then name some back draws?

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Way of Controlling Healthcare Costs?

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	Idea added by Subhasis Bhattacharya, DIVISIONAL MANAGER - OPERATIONS, WESTBANK HOSPITAL \| Topic: GDP- Relevance in Healthcare \| 2 years ago
	Today developed economies like UK Canada have successful healthcare model involving government as its financier and private healthcare delivery as its provider (some cases govt too is a provider). The healthcare costs are dependent on the collective...

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Standardising the Hospital Service Pricing.

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	Idea added by Santosh Marathe, CFO, AHEL \| 2 years ago
	Its crtical to have a meaningful comparables between the Service/Care providers before applying the common Tariff/pricing yardstick. A unit with JCI accrediation or NABL accredition certainly has differing costs strctures as compared to a...

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Medical Care – Quick & Quack System.

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	Referred by prem prakash, Hospital Administrator, O.P.Jindal Institute of Cancer & Research, Hisar ,India \| Topic: The Impact of Social Media in Health Care \| 2 years ago
	There has been a recent spurt in the media that our country’s medical practitioners are becoming more money friendly there act of negligence is finding a reserved space in most of the national dailies. Day by day such acts of negligence are becoming...

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Health on Mobiles

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	Referred by Ruchi Bhatt, Business Head, Kayaguru \| Topic: Emerging Technologies Help Consumers Enjoy Higher Healthcare Standards \| 2 years ago
	I am a Mobile Handset provider and recently tied up with an operator,I am looking at Mobile Content providers in Healthcare, and want to run services of providing healthcare personalised tips to my handset users community.The content liability will be...

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What are the social media trends in health care to watch for in future?

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	Referred by Akhil Swain, Accounts Manager, Sapient Corporation \| 3 years ago
	As social media is gaining more and more importance as the days go by, the social media is used in so many ways in an effective manner to project many a things it is also used in an effective manner in health care in 2008 one can say that the medicine...

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What are the new technologies that is coming up in Health care??

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	Referred by Dayanand Deshpande, Senior Consultant, Ernst & Young \| 3 years ago
	As i don't know anything in this topic where IT is used in Healthcare industry which is turning out to be a major force to reckon in the future, where both Information technology and health care have come together but then nobody has discussed how IT...

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What are the challenges faced by the Health care industry??

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	Idea added by Sudeep Tarafdar, Senior Consultant, BCG \| 3 years ago
	There is so much of lack of quality in this field, Inefficiency and lack of quality, Stakeholders seeking quality and costs reduction, Care coordination across multiple venues, Clinical capacity and labor shortage, Providers seeking efficiency through...

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GDP- Relevance in Healthcare Go to Topic

Way of Controlling Healthcare Costs?


	5 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

Web 2.0 and Healthcare

The clinical professions are ambivalent at best concerning online consumer health information. The message here is that the horse is out of the barn. It's too easy to create social networking applications that leverage Web 2.0 technologies like wikis, blogs, and podcasts, and exploit their synergies with Web 1.0 technologies like forums and mailing lists, and now with Web 3.0 technologies like Microsoft's HealthVault and the nascent Google Health . These applications will interconnect health in

Oat extract may cut cigarette cravings

A standardised oat extract may reduce cravings for smoking and offer would-be quitters an alternative to the patches and gums, suggests research from Japan. A daily supplement of an oats herb extract was found to reduce tobacco consumption from about 20 to fewer than nine cigarettes per day, according to results of a pilot study published in the journal Pharmacometrics . The ingredient, extracted from an ancient type of wild oats, was developed by Frutarom and is being marketed under the name N

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

for fresher bioinformatics in Bengalore

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

Biomarkers making a mark..!!

Biomarkers have proved to be a boon with their ability to reduce cost and time of drug discovery. Many Indian CROs, biopharma companies as well as physicians have now started using biomarkers for the research, treatment and developmental work in therapeutic areas. "The global biomarkers market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 28.5 percent from $0.63 billion in 2004 to $2.90 billion in 2008," says Dr Vinod Mattoo, Chief Scientific Officer, Eli Lilly and Company (In

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

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

New Drugs Value Creation Go to Topic

Will plants serve as a type of "organic-factory" to produce drugs?

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What is the effect of animal testing on animals?

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We can use bioinformatics protocols or in-silico techniques to minimize the animal testing. Yes, I know at every place its not an easy idea to apply but its not impossible...!!!

Trends in healthcare in India and overseas Go to Topic

CANCER

Latest Answer :

Docotr or a treated patient acan anwer this best

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

Transliteration software by Google

क्या हमारे मेम्बर्स हिंदी में सवाल करना चाहेंगे ? इस वेब साईट को चेक करें : http://www.google.co.in/transliterate/indic

Software Engineer's perception on Illness.....

My personal biological system is not running fast and internet also is not working as well as processor denies any request moreover the system is creating peculiar sounds and whole cabinet is overheated.................... ........ OMG!!!!!..... I am sick............. A VIRUS HAS BEEN DETECTED VIRUS NAME:-rhinovirus (30–50%) THREAT TYPE:- Can be serious if not removed initially. Develops into coronavirus (10–15%), influenza (5–15%), human parainfluenza viruses, human respiratory syncytial viru

Investing in Healthcare Go to Topic

Migraine treatment

Top Rated Answer :

Amit--your statement seems really disgraceful..... if you don't like any postings plz don refer to it...but openy disgracing some one like this is not accepted...... plz take care.... we must respect openions of other as well

Accreditations in healthcare...!

today quality is buzz word but how to know which healthcare MNC to go for...the type of accreditations decide what kind of services we are a part of-TYPES OF ACCREDITATION:- 1.JCI-Joint Council International 2.ISO 3.NABH-National Accreditation Board for Healthcare and hospitals

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