HIMSS08: Google unveils details of PHR

So, the Google boys have marched into town with their own PHR, which they demonstrated last week for a marveling crowd at HIMSS08. At a modest booth on a side alley at the exhibition, Google was premiering a simple PHR interface consisting of only few text links, including a link to a feature allowing users to search for doctors, and another accessing Google Scholar to search for medical information. The PHR's key function was a link to a utility allowing users to import records from varied provider systems, then store the records online. Of course, Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been making the rounds assuring privacy advocates that the search giant won't share these records without the patient's consent, but as I understand it, since Google's not a provider they're not required to meet HIPAA standards unless they feel like it. How long that will last, particularly if competitors like Microsoft and Revolution Health begin to loosen their standards?

As we've previously noted, the records will be accessible through the same name/password combination consumers use to access other Google features, such as Calendar and Gmail. OK, readers, I'm sure you know far more than me on this front, but isn't that a fairly weak security method to store extremely private information? When I asked one of the young Google-ites manning the booth this question, he brushed it away. I don't know about you, but that didn't impress me much.

N M Wadia Institue of Cardiology goes for a makeover with HIMS

After intense evaluation process of evaluating vendors of implementing Hospital Information solution, N. M. Wadia Institute of Cardiology decided to implement HIMS solution from a Pune based provider along with Cardiac Information system.

The N. M. Wadia Institute of Cardiology was the first non-government sector hospital in India to start a Coronary Care Unit and the first in Pune to pioneer cardiac Catheterization and Angiography, Angioplasty, Stenting, open heart surgery and closed heart surgery which are now all routine activities.

The software provider is said to have a decade long experience in the field of Cardiology and that has helped them win the deal from the competition. Heart Care Plus – Their Cardiac Information system is a proven solution over a decade and is being used in number of hospitals in India as well as abroad. The overall implementation will be done in phased manner spanning 3-6 months

JIPMER, Pondicherry; 1050 bedded Hospital installs HMIS from Pune based Softlink International

SoftLink International, a leading Software Product company with core focus on Hospital Automation and Medical Imaging, has bagged the prestigious order for implementation of Hospital Management Information System at JIPMER, Pondicherry.
With more than a decade of indepth experience in the field of Healthcare Information Technology (HIT), Softlink has garnered 150 plus installations globally that span across 12 countries! The core strength of SoftLink lies in its product portfolio, which comprises of a fully integrated suite of HIS/CIS/RIS/PACS, making it a "one-stop shop" for an end-to-end solution approach for any Hospital.
JIPMER with a current bed strength of around 1050 and a daily OPD load of around 4500 patients is ranked among the TOP 10 Teaching Hospitals in India. JIPMER offers high quality sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic facility to all patients "free of cost" irrespective of their economic status. The institute runs under the direct administrative control of DGHS, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and is on par with similar institutes like AIIMS, New Delhi, PGIMER, Chandigarh etc.
Recently, JIPMER was declared as an Institute of National importance by way of a legislation approved in Parliament by the Government of India.