Page 18 - Healthcare Sector

GE Healthcare selects 6 Indian startups under 'Cohort 3' programme

Medical technology company GE Healthcare has selected six Indian startups under its 'Cohort 3' programme to help them build and scale up their technologies for their target market segments.

Rajasthan's healthcare scheme benefits over 120,000 people in 3 months

Over 120,000 people have benefitted from free treatment in the first three months of the Rajasthan government's MukhyaMantri Chiranjeevi Swasthya Bima Yojna

UK health workers to receive 3% pay rise in accordance with NHS body

The UK government said on Wednesday that it will back NHS by providing a 3% salary uplift to health workers in full accordance with recommendations of NHS independent pay review bodies

India's health inequality made worse by reduced health budget: Oxfam report

Oxfam India's inequality report draws attention to the county's unequal healthcare story hit further by Covid-19

Hospitals have turned into industries instead of serving humanity: SC

On December 18 last year, the top court had directed all the states to constitute a committee in each district to conduct fire audit of COVID-19 hospitals at least once a month

NCGTC issues guidelines for Rs 50,000-cr scheme for medical infra

The National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company Ltd on Friday issued operational guidelines for the Rs 50,000-crore credit guarantee scheme

Pharma shares in focus; Alkem, Divi's Lab, Syngene hit record highs

Thus far in the financial year 2021-22 (FY22), the S&P BSE Healthcare index has rallied 24 per cent, as against 9 per cent gain in the S&P BSE Sensex

Kerala govt to strengthen public-private partnership in healthcare in state

Kerala Health Minister Veena George said the public-private partnership in healthcare will be strengthened in the state

Indian scientists working on developing mRNA vaccine technology get grant

Ignite Life Science Foundation has awarded its first grant award for "pandemic preparedness" research to a team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru)

Delhi's cloud-based health project likely to be out by March next year: CM

Kejriwal on Thursday reviewed the progress of the ambitious cloud-based Health care Information Management System (HIMS) and said it is likely to be rolled out by March next year.

AstraZeneca partners with Docon to digitise 1,000 clinics across India

Biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca India (AstraZeneca Pharma India Limited) on Wednesday announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Bengaluru-based health startup, Docon Technologies, for digitising 1,000 clinics across India. Under the partnership, Docon will equip the identified clinics with customised Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems enabling clinicians to access complete patient history, a joint statement said. "This willgo a long way in helping the clinical community better treat chronic patients and manage long-term complications of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes and cardiovascular diseases', it said. Towards reaching the 1,000 clinics goal in 2021, on ground identification and support has been placed in 30 cities. Till now, as a part of the pilot phase, around 200 clinics have been upgraded with many of them being in Tier 1 & 2 towns, the statement said. In addition to providing the clinicians with a three day ..

Investment low in pvt healthcare, stimulus may be game-changer: V K Paul

Investment in the expansion of the health sector in private domain has been relatively low: V K Paul

NITI Aayog releases report on 'not-for-profit' hospital model in India

The study provides insights into the operation model of not-for-profit hospitals

$32 mn World Bank loan for improving healthcare services in Mizoram

The Covid-19 pandemic has had adverse effects on the delivery and utilisation of essential health services in the state.

Mankind Pharma inks distribution pact with BDR Pharma for Covid drug

Delhi-based Mankind Pharma operates in 34 overseas destinations.

GSK's drugs arm to get $11 billion windfall from consumer spin-off

Investors have been waiting for details of the separation

Pvt hospitals to log 15-17% revenue growth in fiscal 2022: Crisil

Recovery in revenue and margins will nevertheless spur hospitals to resurrect capex, which had almost halved year-on-year last fiscal.

Nutraceuticals market to grow at over 35% annually to $18 bn in next 5 yrs

This comes as a consequence of the deadly second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic

Vaccination and stimulus will make 9-9.5% growth possible: CII president

Ideal way is convincing people but vaccination is also a social responsibility; Countries need to balance corporate tax rate, says industry body's new President and MD-CEO of Tata Steel

Reality always catches up in a pandemic: Albright Stonebridge's Mehul Mehta

He spoke to Anjuli Bhargava about the second wave of the pandemic, how the US managed its vaccine rollout better than India, and where India needs to go with its genomics sequencing capabilities