Tag: patient
World Patient Safety Day: How safe is blood transfusion?
A recent report released by NACO reveals that 14,474 cases of HIV have been caused due to unsafe blood transfusion in India..............
Telemedicine market to reach US$5.5 billion by 2025 with teleconsultation...
15%-20% of healthcare is expected to shift to virtual care, across triaging, consults, remote monitoring and home health. 64% of surveyed consumers are willing to adopt teleconsultation post COVID-19.......................
Home healthcare could play a key role in post COVID-19 recovery
Post COVID Recovery Programme from HealthCare atHome (HCAH) aims to ensure a complete recovery from the disease, help build respiratory strength, restore physical and mental immunity.....................
Abbott & 1mg bring continuous glucose monitoring solutions closer to Indian...
Abbott’s professional flash glucose monitoring system will be made available online on 1mg for the first time in India. 1mg will provide an onsite phlebotomy* service at the patient’s home to help administer the sensor and take readings of the data after 14 days........................
Digital healthcare comes to rescue of patients during COVID-19
Use of technologies such as Internet Of Things and Artificial Intelligence are helping patients in the hospitals during COVID times, writes Amrita Chowdhury, Director and Co-founder of Gaia....................
AIIMS Delhi starts tele-consultation guidance to state doctors on COVID clinical...
A specialist team of doctors from AIIMS, New Delhi shall provide guidance on effective clinical management of COVID-19 patients in the ICUs of different State hospitals through tele/video consultation....................
Apollo Clinics says it’s maintaining safe OPDs across India
Apollo Clinics, a chain of primary healthcare clinics has said that it is taking stringent protective measures to ensure a safe patient experience in a COVID-19 safe facility...............
Health-tech platform, Phable raises $1 million in Pre-Series A round
Co-founded by Sumit Sinha and Mukesh Bansal in 2018, Phable operates by creating an ecosystem of patients, doctors, hospitals, health devices, insurance and patient care service providers...............
COVID-19: Plasma Therapy helps critical patient recover well, get off ventilator
The 49-year-old critically ill patient was administered fresh plasma as a treatment modality as a side-line to standard treatment protocols and he showed progressive improvement......................
Expanding the scope of heartcare with Advanced Imaging Tools
Leading experts from the various fields of interventional cardiology have come under one roof to discuss the most advanced percutaneous cardiovascular interventions..................