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India Is Quite Capable Of Sending A Rocket To Mars And Fighting Poverty At The Same Time
This morning, India successfully launched a rocket to Mars. Christened Mangalyaan, or Mars vehicle, the rocket is part of a scientific mission that cost a grand total of Rs 4.5 billion, or $73 million. In terms of the space business, that’s a bargain. By contrast, NASA’s next Mars mission will cost $671 million and do the same thing as India’s craft: orbit the red planet collecting data. Read More »
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India Retail: Nationalist Ministers Say Wal-Mart's DC Lobbying Amounts To Bribery
New rules allowing transnational multibrand retailers like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) to set up shop in some of India’s larger cities have been facing steep criticism from the conservative-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s second-largest party. Read More »
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India to Help World Protect Ancient Medicines
On Tuesday, India offered to share its expertise with other countries on effectively protecting the commercially valuable traditional systems of medicine such as Ayurveda from being patented by individuals and companies. The 34-million page digital database India created in five global languages on Ayurveda, Sidhha, and Unani systems of medicine and Yoga, has helped India prevent individuals and companies from patenting medicines derived from these traditional medicines.
India to Make Some Traditional Knowledge Free Access
Indian traditional knowledge could soon help researchers develop new drugs for diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, because of plans to make some of this knowledge publicly available.The Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) has been in development since 2001, with more than 200 researchers compiling and translating traditional knowledge based on some 150 ancient texts and documenting around 200,000 medicines. It aims to legitimise traditional knowledge and protect it from biopiracy and patent claims by providing information to patent offices for cross-checking of new applications.
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Indian American World Bank Official to Lead Open Government Partnership
Sanjay Pradhan, a top Indian American World Bank official, has been selected to lead the Open Government Partnership, a multination initiative focused on improving government transparency, accountability and responsiveness to citizens. Currently vice president for Change, Leadership and Innovation at the World Bank Group, Pradhan will leave the organization in mid-March to lead the OGP starting mid-2016. Pradhan holds a Ph.D. and bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.
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Indian Health Service of HHS Contributes Open Source Version of Electronic Health Record
The Indian Health Service (IHS) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has contributed an open source version of its Resource and Patient Management System (RPMS) to the OSEHRA Technical Journal. This contribution will complement the current open source EHR capabilities of the VistA code base now hosted by OSEHRA. Read More »
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Indian Health Service Solving e-Health Challenges With Help From VA
The Indian Health Service's electronic health records system is getting an upgrade. And it's following the same joint EHR plan as the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Defense Department. Read More »
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Indian Healthcare Industry Prescribing A Dose Of Technology
Max Healthcare which has been at the forefront of delivering healthcare services in Delhi-NCR has moved to an Electronic Health Records (EHR) system from their existing Hospital Information System (HIS). The group implemented an open source EHR system, WorldVistA, with the goals of minimizing the need for paper records, allowing order entry by the doctors in the system itself, and enabling easy access to patient records. The system was hosted on a private cloud and was interfaced with laboratory, radiology and pharmacy to allow real-time access to any patient record.
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Indian Hospital Adopts the Cloud to Increase Its Reach
Max Healthcare, a large hospital chain in India, said on Wednesday that it has moved its Health Information System (HIS) to a private cloud-computing system, making it easier to treat and follow up with patients from any of its locations across the country...The rollout, starting January, will be around the open source VistA (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture) EHR system.
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Indian Hospitals Could Show U.S. Hospitals How To Save Money Without Cutting Quality
No matter how the fight over Obamacare shakes out, the biggest challenge facing U.S. health care will remain reducing costs while improving quality of care and access for patients. The experience of a few innovative Indian hospitals may point the way forward. Read More »
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Indian Pharma Industry Should Work For Inventing New Drugs, Dr Abdul Kalam
The Indian pharmaceutical industry should turn their attention to invent new drugs from molecule levels and each manufacturing unit should try to become invention centres, opined Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India. Read More »
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Indiana University Aims to Adapt VA Telehealth Network to Treatment of Brain Injuries
Researchers from Indiana University Medical Center and the Department of Veterans Affairs will be looking at how to adapt the VA’s extensive telemedicine network to assess and treat veterans with mild traumatic brain injuries. Mobile technologies likely will be a key part of the process. Read More »
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Indigo Grantees In The UK’s Observer Newspaper
It was great to read this weekend’s Observer newspaper’s special section on the new Africa. It was an attempt to shift coverage of Africa from war, famine and dictators to the innovation and good news stories that abound on the continent. Read More »
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Industrial Revolution Unravels, Collaborative Economy Rises Says Jeremiah Owyang
Just about anyone who works at analyzing social media knows the name Jeremiah Owyang. He was, after all, one of the first to accurately predict social media would take the world by storm--a contrarian view back in the day when nearly everyone was convinced social media was only a fad. Now he's predicting that the industrial revolution is about to completely unravel and be replaced by a new collaborative economy... Read More »
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Industry Agrees To New Mobile App Guidelines
Industry groups and privacy advocates on Thursday were near agreement on voluntary guidelines for mobile apps that should make it easier for consumers to know what personal information is getting sucked from their smartphone or tablet and passed along to marketers. Read More »
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