Of the 1.17 lakh health and wellness centres operationalised in the country, one lakh will have teleconsultation services from April 16, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Tuesday. If someone living in a remote village needs health-related advices from an expert, the teleconsultation services will be quite helpful for him, Mandaviya said in a … Read more
New Delhi: To support its aim of expanding health and protection across all its geographies, notably through innovative services, AXA has added a free specialist teleconsultation feature to its telemedicine CSR initiative SAATH (Supportive Action Across Telemedicine and Healthcare). SAATH is a ‘One AXA’ public health initiative between AXA France Vie, AXA GO Business Operations, … Read more
The Common Services Center (CSC) scheme by the Ministry of Electronic and Information Technology has announced a dedicated helpline on WhatsApp called ‘CSC Health Services Helpdesk’ aimed to provide teleconsultation solutions for people including in rural and remotest parts of the country. The helpdesk on WhatsApp is said to make it easy for people to … Read more
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, spoke to Kaushik Mitra, Senior Director, Cloud ERP, Oracle India to know more about cloud technology impacting healthcare in the current digitilization drive. The healthcare and pharma sectors have been at the forefront during the COVID crisis. What do you think would be the role of healthcare in India’s post-pandemic economic … Read more
With the ambition of launching a Super App, the Tata group is betting big on the healthcare segment through Tata Health, which provides teleconsultation services and, in the future, aims to predict non-communicable diseases before onset for its users. Tata has acquired majority stake in online pharmacy 1mg, which has been integrated as a pharmacy … Read more
For a quick and easy health and wellness facility, the digital Arm of the Apollo Hospitals Group and Microsoft India have joined hands to launch enterprise solution within the Microsoft work suite. It has been tested in a pilot program for Microsoft India employees for a period of three months Due to the upcoming covid … Read more
New Delhi : Digital technology solutions like telemedicine and teleconsultation have helped us to take healthcare access to India’s hinterland in the pandemic, said Saurabh Gaur, IAS, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). Gaur was speaking at the launch of second edition of Healthcare Innovation Challenge (HIC) 2.0. A initiative, by the … Read more
Mumbai, July 01, 2021: The Association of Physicians of India (API) has launched therapy-specific teleconsultation recommendations, in collaboration with Abbott. This robust set of recommendations outlines best practices on adopting teleconsultation across various therapeutic areas, currently catering specifically to cardiology, diabetes, gastroenterology and adult immunization with plans to cover more specialties in the future. The … Read more
Telemedicine start-up, Tattvan on Monday announced the launch of its Covid-19 Home-care Treatment Package for patients suffering from mild symptoms of coronavirus. The company aims at providing treatment to people from Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities via teleconsultation through its new Homecare Package launch. The package offers services such as online doctor consultation, nurse vital monitoring … Read more
PANCHKULA: The Panchkula health department has started its e-Sanjeevani OPD services. With this, people can now get free tele-consultation services at home that will help them avoid undue exposure in hospitals, especially during Covid-19 pandemic. Prabhjot Singh, mission director, NHM Haryana, through video conference held a meeting of all civil Surgeons for the promotion of … Read more