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Cigna reveals plans for new insurance venture in India
Cigna outlined in more detail its joint venture to sell health insurance abroad in India , including the company name, leaders and goals, slated for next year. Because it is partnering with India's
Cigna to be first U.S. health insurance seller in India
Cigna will become the first U.S. insurer to sell health, wellness, and insurance products in India as part of a stand-alone joint venture with Indian conglomerate TTK Group, reports the Wall Street
Hospitals reluctant to outsource EMR work to India
Here's a little conundrum arising in the race to implement electronic medical records: Vendors want to save money and offer lower prices by outsourcing IT work to India and similar locales. But
Telehealth holds promise for alleviating primary care crunch
The current shortage of primary care physicians in America may only get worse when health insurance reform brings some 32 million newly insured patients into the mix by 2014. Some, including
North Carolina Blues plan outsources IT work overseas in pilot project
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) in Chapel Hill for the first time will outsource some work overseas--and some people in the technology-focused state aren't happy. The state's
Paper: Wireless monitoring allows more accurate study of COPD, Parkinson's patients
Wireless monitors can allow healthcare professionals to observe patients with debilitating conditions such as Parkinson's disease or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) under normal living
SPOTLIGHT: M-health innovation around the world
While laws and providers' own policies in the U.S. and Europe often hold back innovation in mobile health, some developing nations already have seen how m-health technologies can transform care. At
Worldwide m-health market opportunity could reach $60 billion
We're going to Atlanta next week to cover HIMSS10. Our colleagues at FierceWireless--who also will be at HIMSS--got to go to the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, last week. (Not that
Dedicated Bluetooth connection resolves speed, connectivity issues that hold back telemedicine
When it comes to technology in healthcare, speed is everything. If a new technology slows doctors down, watch how fast they revert to their old ways. So there's some promising news out of India in
India's Fortis Healthcare buys 10 hospitals, bringing total to 38
Usually, we tend to focus on U.S. transactions here at FierceHealthcare, as it's a big ol' world out there and there's too much to tell. But these days, given the increasingly powerful U.S./India
