Columbia Asia Hospitals launches its Patient Engagement Suite powered by MphRx’s Minerva platform

MphRx has announced that Columbia Asia Hospitals, a chain of 28 hospitals across India, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam, has launched their Patient Engagement Application Suite, with patient-facing applications available on Web, Android and Apple devices. Powered by MphRx’s FHIR based digital health platform – Minerva, the integrated patient engagement applications provide an aggregated view of patient’s health data across the network’s hospitals and enables online booking of health care services and physician appointments.   Columbia Asia Hospitals had created a strategic direction to roll-out an integrated patient engagement platform across…

RIL partners with NMCG to create awareness of how to keep the river Ganga clean

To create awareness and sensitize people on the importance of keeping the River Ganga clean, National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), the implementing agency for “Namami Gange Programme” has partnered with Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL).   Under this partnership, Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, which is the digital arm of RIL will send out Clean Ganga messages through SMS and Digital banner push notifications to its large customer base, during the Kumbh Mela 2019. The content of such messages has been provided by NMCG.   Reliance Jio has also embedded ‘Ganga…

Hero Electric asks owners to switch to electric bikes

In line with the Government’s thrust on promoting electric two wheelers, Hero Electric has announced a unique program to encourage the owners of old and rickety petrol two wheelers to switch to electric scooters.   There are at-least 5 crore very old and highly polluting, petrol guzzling two wheelers still running on the Indian roads that are either unsalable or can be sold near a scrap value. Such vehicles have pollution levels much higher than Bharat 4 bikes these days and consume twice the petrol for the same distance. Hero…

Picooc launches health monitoring smart weighing scale in India

Picooc has launched Picooc Mini, a high-precision health monitoring smart weighing scale in India which will be distributed exclusively by Optiemus Infracom Limited. Staying true to its name, Picooc Mini is a compact device, making it easy to store and carry and can also be connected to the user’s smartphone using a Bluetooth connection and processes the measurement data to create health trends. It also offers personalized suggestions on the Picooc Mobile App. The device allows to create unlimited profiles, hence, making it ideal for family use as well. Priced…

Zoomcar gives away bicycles to the less privileged

Zoomcar spread joy amongst the lesser privileged sections of the society, to mark India’s 70th Republic Day. In a campaign named #CycleofLove, the company gave away bicycles to help the lesser fortunate in their everyday commute.   The joys of life are not distributed equally amongst us all. People from the weaker strata of the society have to endure great hardships in order to simply reach their place of work, schools etc. Young boys and girls commute on foot to their schools, and so do the security guards, laundry persons, household…

MyDoc and UST Global set up JV to offer accessible and affordable healthcare for working professionals

MyDoc, Asia’s most established value-based digital managed care platform, has formed a joint venture (JV) to cut health costs for millions of working professionals in India. The MyDoc-UST Global JV is aimed at helping people stay out of hospitals and stay well for longer. The unique partnership combines MyDoc’s best practices, battle tested in one of the world’s most advanced healthcare systems, with one of India’s largest technology solutions provider to deliver healthcare services at scale to the Indian public.   Starting with over 14,000 employees at UST Global centres throughout India, the new company…

Nanavati Super Specialty Hospital provides BLS training on occasion of Republic Day

Nanavati Super Specialty Hospital has organized a community connect program with five co-operative societies in its vicinity. The program was organized on the occasion of the 70th Republic Day, aiming to provide BLS (Basic Life Support) training, identifying the early symptoms of Stroke (paralysis) and awareness on organ donation. There were over 150 people attending this program. The BLS training involves learning CPR and basic first aid in cases of emergency.   CPR training facilities are limited in India as there is no defined CPR practice guideline that has been drafted in the…

Honeywell Safe Schools Program organizes fire safety drive

SEEDS (Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society) has organized a community drive at Rajkiya Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya (RSKV), West Vinod Nagar, Preet Vihar division, to educate students and the public on Fire Safety. The volunteer engagement activity was part of its Honeywell Safe Schools Program and held to commemorate National Fire and Evacuation Drill Day celebrated on January 21 every year.   During the fire safety drive, an innovative ‘Fire Hazard Hunt’ was organized wherein groups of students, teachers and volunteers were briefed about safe locations in the school buildings…

Ambuja Cement’s Neev Abhiyan promotes sustainable construction

Ambuja Cements has been setting new benchmarks in sustainable construction year after year. Among its various holistic programs includes the very successful Neev Abhiyan initiative that imparts formal training to upskill masons and contractors by strengthening their knowledge-base and technical skill-sets through certified training modules and value-added services which promote sustainable construction.   While this unique initiative going on in full swing, the Technical Services team has organized numerous workshops since 2017 thereby successfully reaching out to about 41,000 contractors and masons. This program is also helping in addressing the…

Fisheye creates a #MeToo video by addressing women in advertising

Fisheye Creative Solutions has launched a one-minute video supporting the #MeToo movement that has taken the business world by storm. The video pushes the #MeToo campaign to the next level by asking women in the advertising industry to keep the momentum going, to keep speaking up against sexual harassment in the work space, to keep ‘outing’ the offenders.   Throwing light on the video and the need for it, Dave Banerjee, CEO of Fisheye stated, “Why will any self-respecting young girl look forward to joining this industry after all the…