Mumbai-based Metropolis Health Services, which operates one of India's largest path lab chains with over 45 facilities, is in advanced talks to acquire a 60% stake in a London-based path lab chain. The target company, it is learnt, operates eight path laboratories across the UK.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
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The problem with typing up records is data security and transmission. The purpose of HIPAA was to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare system through the development of established health data standards and requirements for the transmission and storage of electronic health information. Currently, however, a select few EMR and medical transcription services comply with these standards. We need to create a licencing mechanism to ensure that companies are indeed HIPAA compliant, similar to how manufacturers get ISO-9001 certified. Otherwise, the act just turns into a marketing tag line for companies.
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