eHealth

The two companies will focus on using technology to help governments and healthcare providers address potential supply chain disruptions through information sharing

Overall, Budget 2021 is a very promising and encouraging budget for the health and wellness sector. Happy to see that health and well-being have been given due importance and noted as the first pillar of the budget.

Prime Minister said that AIIMS Rajkot will boost health infrastructure, medical education and provide employment opportunities in Gujarat.

NITI Aayog recently released a white paper ‘Vision 2035: Public Health Surveillance in India’ that talks about having a better data-sharing mechanism between the Centre and states, while ensuring individual privacy and confidentiality. “The Covid-19 pandemic has provided us with an opportunity to revisit (re)-emerging diseases due to increased interaction between human-animal-environment. Early identification of this interference is essential to break the chain of transmissions and create a resilient surveillance system,” said an official statement. Released by Dr Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog; Dr Vinod K Paul, Member (Health); Amitabh Kant CEO, NITI Aayog and Dr Rakesh Sarwal, Additional Secretary, NITI Aayog, the document envisions a citizen-friendly public health system, which will involve stakeholders at all levels, be it individual, community, health care facilities or laboratories, all while protecting the individual’s privacy and confidentiality. According to the white paper, surveillance will be primarily based on de-identified (anonymised) individual-level patient information that...

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan has said it is expected that the vaccine will be available in the coming few weeks

Pandemic has played a pivotal role in accelerating the pace and also made digital health usage non-negotiable in the present times

Our technology is currently in use in three dozen government and select private hospitals in cities like Mumbai, and in States like Kerala and Madhya Pradesh, said ESDS CEO Piyush Somani.

AIIMS Delhi is all set to deploy robots to contain the spread of the COVID-19 amongst doctors and healthcare workers

To strengthen the India's response to COVID-19 pandemic, the government has decided to make the testing and treatment for COVID-19 available under Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PM JAY)

With coronavirus cases growing across the country including in Delhi, the sale of face masks, sanitizer, and gloves have soared disproportionately