02-Oct-15 Portea Medical, India’s largest medicalised homecare group has just expanded to Malaysia and is actively looking at other South East Asian markets, linking up to hospitals, labs and potentially insurers. “We do provide medical services in retirement communities, but we... want to remain focused on homecare, post-operative care and chronic disease management,” said CEO Meena Ganesh. [image: TechCrunch].

04-Oct-15 Cygnus Hospitals, which operates a chain of super speciality units in Delhi and Haryana, aims to add another 40 hospitals in north India in the next three years. The Delhi-based group currently has 10 hospitals in Delhi, Sonepat, Panipat, Karnal and Kurukshetra. [image: Cygnus Hospitals]

23-Sep-15 GE Healthcare has announced a new business unit, Sustainable Healthcare Solutions, that will develop high-value, low-cost technologies and healthcare delivery solutions, investing USD300 mn as part of a multi-phase effort to develop a more robust affordable healthcare portfolio for its customers. The unit will combine GE Healthcare’s operations in India, South Asia, Africa and Southeast Asia. [image: GE Healthcare]

22-Sep-15 More people with arthritis are opting for partial instead of total knee replacement in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, as it is much more effective and less painful. Hospitals have started recommending partial knee replacement, which currently accounts for only 3% of knee replacements, particularly for younger people, including people in their 40s.
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22-Sep-15 Indian IT healthcare company SmartRx is launching an innovative mHealth app, expected to be among the best available. It will support online chat, video and audio consultation, notes and records, prescription and payment. “We have estimated that 20-30% of consultations will move to mobile and tele-health app platforms in the next 3-4 years" said Anil Kumar, CEO of Smart Rx. [image: SmartRX]