Health Ministry permits transfer of blood between Blood Banks

ICTpost News Network New Delhi: October 24, 2015 The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has identified two major initiatives towards better utilisation of blood and blood components, as part of its commitment to ensure safe blood and enhanced access to blood products, on the recommendation of the National Blood Transfusion Council. The first step […]

Big Data means Big Opportunity to Reform Indian Education

ICTpost Education Bureau One of the many arenas where officials could benefit from big data deployment is higher education. With their large volumes of student information, including enrollment, academic and disciplinary records, universities have the datasets needed to benefit from a targeted analytics project. The primary goal of big data analytics is to help companies […]

Invest in Big Data technologies

New Delhi: October 14, 2015 Many organizations do not manage customer data as a corporate asset, and the monetary value of that data is often ignored. “Digital business is having a significant impact on customer data,” said Douglas Laney, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. “The growing wealth of information from social media, location […]

Health ICT can help physicians and patients track their progress

ICTpost Health IT Bureau In Indian health care, many clinical practices are not based on good scientific evidence regarding an intervention’s impact on important outcomes or quality of care. Sometimes this occurs because evidence from well conducted, randomized controlled trials is not available. However, even when good evidence is available and there is strong consensus […]

Need for bigger financing and implementation plans to achieve sustainable development

By Arun Jaitley, Union Minister of Finance, Corporate Affairs and Information and Broadcasting ?Strong and inclusive economic growth is necessary for the developing economies to grow, prosper and develop sustainably. Such growth is also necessary for achieving the SDGs as well as the twin goals of the World Bank. With expected growth of only 4.3% […]

Indian Railway Knowledge Portal : Step towards ICT convergence in Indian Railways

ICTpost News Network New Delhi: October 1, 2015 Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu recently launched Indian Railway Knowledge Portal namely www.kportal.indianrailways.gov.in which has aggregated most of the available knowledge about Indian Railways at one location and has also tried to encompass as much knowledge as possible, by linking websites, documents etc. for dissemination of […]

Passion for Change: An Interview with Pradeep Chopra

“If Digital Marketing were not available to startups, we would not have seen multi billion dollar startups such as FlipKart, Snapdeal emerging from India.” These are words of Pradeep Chopra. ICTpost covers successful individuals who lead in education, skills, government, business and culture. Behind every leader is a formidable skill set. One of particular significance […]