A memorandum of understanding was signed between Apollo Group and CSC under the Department of Electronics and Information Technology in Delhi. Apollo Hospitals started telemedicine 13 years back, in an effort to bring healthcare closer to patients of both urban and rural areas. Apollo Tele Health Services, a group company of Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Limited, has signed a MoU with CSC.

A medical revolution has been launched under County Group of Hospitals of Kumasi and Apollo Group of Hospitals in India, following the launch of telemedicine in Ghana at the Abenkyiman Hospital at Anhwiankwanta in the Bekwai Municipality.
Apollo Hospitals is the largest telemedicine provider in India with 71 centres. Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technology in order to provide clinical health care from a distance.

The award is given in recognition of the exemplary effort, commitment and dedication to leveraging on healthcare ICT to transform patient care and outcome.
The award was presented at the HIMSS Digital Healthcare Week in Singapore, on 21 October 2013. The award was presented by Stephen Lieber, President and CEO of HIMSS worldwide and Gerrit Bos, Managing Director APAC, Elsevier.
Ms. Sangita Reddy received the awards on behalf of the group.

HIMSS Analytics Asia Pacific has recognized three hospitals within Apollo Group for achieving Stage 6 on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM)SM. The hospitals are:

Apollo Main Hospitals, Chennai
Apollo Health City, Jubilee Hills,
Apollo Hospitals Ayanambakkam, Chennai

Can cell phones save lives? Marking a significant shift, Indian healthcare providers are now looking at extending medical services through mobile telephony. This means a cancer patient in a Tamil Nadu district hospital can have the option of consulting a specialist in Kolkata or a heart patient in Meerut can receive treatment from a cardiologist in Bangalore.

The NABH accreditation is the result of high level of dedication, commitment & hard work displayed by the employees and consultants of Apollo BGS Hospitals, Mysore.
The hospital was announced as NABH Accredited on September 19th 2013 and thereby became the 7th NABH Accredited hospital in the group. The hospital is amongst those few which have completed the NABH accreditation process in short period. The key areas which were appreciated during the audit process are –

Chief Executive Officer of National Accreditation Board for Hospitals (NABH), Dr K K Kalra inaugurated Apollo Cancer Hospital, Bilaspur on 23rd October, 2013 in the presence of Dr Rupali Basu, CEO (Eastern Region), Apollo Hospitals and Brig (Dr) Anil Kumar Sharma, CEO of Apollo Hospitals, Bilaspur.

The collaboration will leverage a Medtronic-developed technology platform, supported by clinical insight from Apollo. Both organizations envision an affordable and accessible health care delivery system that addresses the critical need for dialysis solutions in India. Both companies do not expect the collaboration to materially impact their earnings in the respective company’s fiscal year.

BP Clinics is an initiative aimed at combating the menace of high BP in the country, with focus on reducing or delaying incidence of blood pressure and minimising the incidence of complications in those who are already hypertensive, Sangita Reddy, executive director of Apollo Hospitals Group, said in a release.

Announcing the opening of the clinic, which comes under Apollo First Med Hospitals, Preetha Reddy, Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals, said on Friday the hospital chain would have a multi-pronged approach to diagnose complex fever and unknown origin.
The initial investment would be around Rs 3 crore for the startup. “”We have started this at First Med Hospital and once it’s fine-tuned, we will have 10 such centers by the end of the year,”” she said, adding soon it would be rolled out in other parts of the country.