India gets 'pay-as-per-use' model
Dell-Perot Systems, which bundles hardware and software solutions for offering low-cost services to hospitals and other healthcare companies, plans to replicate its American model for gaining more business in India's $12-billion domestic market, reports EconomicTimes.
The company, which is already offering its pay-as-per use service to healthcare customers in the US, signed a 10-year contract with Max Healthcare earlier this year, bidding against domestic rivals TCS and Wipro, for Rs 90 crore (R144 million).
At a time when the US is preparing to spend almost $46 billion on modernisation of its ageing healthcare systems, and even the Indian government has aggressive IT-enabled programmes, tech firms such as TCS, Infosys and Wipro will have to compete against Dell-Perot and IBM.
Tech Data opens health unit
Tech Data has unveiled its first specialised business unit focused on a vertical market to help solution providers sell more into the recession-proof healthcare space, states CRN.
The distributor plans to develop repeatable solutions for electronic medical records, mobility, data centre optimisation, network security, content management, physical security and digital signage, all geared toward doctors, hospitals and other healthcare clients, says Joe Quaglia, senior vice-president of marketing at Tech Data.
Tech Data spent nine months developing the programme and Quaglia acknowledged that other distributors have been quicker to get healthcare programmes to market.
Clinic deploys alerts network
AtHoc, a provider of network-centric emergency notification systems, has deployed its IWSAlerts third-generation mass emergency alerting system at Lyster Army Health Clinic to enhance force protection and provide unified emergency notification capability to clinic personnel, says TMCnet.
The IWSAlerts is a system that has been designed as a highly secure, enterprise-class network-centric mass notification system.
Its interoperability, scalability and security measures are said to have led to its selection by highly demanding defence and commercial organisations including the US Strategic Command, US Air Force, Boeing and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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