China will step up efforts to remove pornographic and other harmful information from the Internet by bolstering management of the Internet Service Provider (ISP) market, a senior official said.
Virtual host and trustee host servers will be the key areas for closer monitoring, vice director of the Telecommunications Bureau under the Ministry of Information Industry, Chen Jiachun said.
Local administrative departments of the Bureau have been urged to identify Internet servers that do not have business licenses besides intensifying monitor of licensed ISPs. Those who ignore regulations will be asked to suspend activities untill their situation is rectified or even have their license revoked.
Chen said that telecommunications operators are responsible for strictly scrutinizing ISPs operating on their platforms.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Public Security said last week that nearly 80 per cent of juvenile delinquents have been lured into crime by "evil content" on the Internet. China has roughly 123 million Internet users, most of whom are young people.
Meanwhile, about 100 officials and experts gathered on Tuesday to discuss how to step up information security. Entitled "Information Security: China and the World," the seminar was hosted by the China Institute for International Strategic Studies (CIISS) and Michael Eric Bosman Hotung Foundation.
Officials from the Chinese information industry and from economic planning bodies also took part in the two-day seminar while foreign attendees came from 12 countries in Asia, Europe, America and Oceania.
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China to clean up 'evil content' from Internet
April 26, 2007, 9:22 amHow marsupials help doctors save babies’ lives
April 26, 2007, 9:20 am
Now, doctors are taking inspiration from marsupials on how physical contact between mothers and infants can be effectively used to save the lives of low birth weight babies.
Three years ago, a Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) ward for an alternative neonatal care approach was started by the Neonatology division of the pediatrics department, SSG Hospital. The KMC ward's main aim was to manage low birth weight babies through continuous early, prolonged and uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact. A recent study conducted by the Neonatology division at SSG Hospital found that the method is has been more successful than conventional method in cutting down mortality rates among such infants by at least 90 per cent.
Low birth weight babies constitute 30-40 per cent of neonates born in India and account for two-thirds of the neonatal mortality. "Conventional care of low birth weight babies is expensive. KMC is an alternative and inexpensive as well as a baby-and-mother-friendly method of care for LBW infants. It is particularly useful in caring for low birth weight infants below 2 kg," said Dr Dulari Gandhi of the Head of Department (HoD), pediatrics department, Baroda Medical College (BMC).
To ascertain the effectiveness of this method to combat the infant mortality rate in low birth weight babies, the department of pediatrics conducted an eight-month long study starting in July-2006. The aims of the study was to ascertain the effect of the Kangaroo Mother Care method in the low birth weight group-infants less than 2kg and very low birth weight infants-less than 1.5 kg. The study was based on comparisons between conventional methods for such neonates and those who were given Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC). "As expected, it was found that KMC was a more efficient method in combating infant mortality rate amongst low birth weight infants during the first month after their birth," said Dr Gandhi.
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Three years ago, a Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) ward for an alternative neonatal care approach was started by the Neonatology division of the pediatrics department, SSG Hospital. The KMC ward's main aim was to manage low birth weight babies through continuous early, prolonged and uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact. A recent study conducted by the Neonatology division at SSG Hospital found that the method is has been more successful than conventional method in cutting down mortality rates among such infants by at least 90 per cent.
Low birth weight babies constitute 30-40 per cent of neonates born in India and account for two-thirds of the neonatal mortality. "Conventional care of low birth weight babies is expensive. KMC is an alternative and inexpensive as well as a baby-and-mother-friendly method of care for LBW infants. It is particularly useful in caring for low birth weight infants below 2 kg," said Dr Dulari Gandhi of the Head of Department (HoD), pediatrics department, Baroda Medical College (BMC).
To ascertain the effectiveness of this method to combat the infant mortality rate in low birth weight babies, the department of pediatrics conducted an eight-month long study starting in July-2006. The aims of the study was to ascertain the effect of the Kangaroo Mother Care method in the low birth weight group-infants less than 2kg and very low birth weight infants-less than 1.5 kg. The study was based on comparisons between conventional methods for such neonates and those who were given Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC). "As expected, it was found that KMC was a more efficient method in combating infant mortality rate amongst low birth weight infants during the first month after their birth," said Dr Gandhi.
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Govt hospitals take E-asy route with HMIS
April 26, 2007, 9:18 am
After successfully implementing a pilot project in Gandhinagar Civil Hospital, the Government now plans to introduce the computerised Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) in all 25 district-level hospitals along with six major hospitals across Gujarat. The Rs 25 crore HIMS project envisages to not only help administrators monitor better and control the functioning of government-run hospitals, but also assist doctors and medical staff to improve health services with a ready-reference patient data.
“The networking and infrastructure work under HMIS is almost complete in as many as 11 other government-run hospitals including Vadodara’s Jamnabai Hospital and also in the Rajkot, Nadiad and Sola hospitals. By the year end, the IT application will be be in place in all 25 district hospitals and six other major hospitals in State,” says Joint Secretary (Health) Mona Khandhar.
“After going hi-tech under HMIS, all these government-run hospitals will be connected with the State Health Commissionerate and the Secretariat in Gandhinagar, which will help us plan better and take prompt and vital policy decisions to tone up the hospital administration and improve health services,” Khandhar said.
The various software modules prepared under the system relate to hospital administration, patients’ medical history data, number of indoor/outdoor patients registered daily, laboratory tests, accounting and billing of drug purchases and inventory, patients’ complaints and their redressal, blood bank, trauma/nursing care, biomedical waste management, human resources, linen management and medical equipment maintenance. An employee information system module has also been prepared to track the latest position on attendance of medical staff, including doctors.
“HMIS has started yielding positive results in our hospital. Sitting in my office, it takes just a click of mouse to know how many indoor/outdoor patients are being treated daily or whether the attendance of medical and para-medical staff is enough to attend to them. Even our bosses in the State Health Commissionerate and the Secretariat can easily access all the relevant data on their computers,” says Gandhinagar Civil Hospital Superintendent Dr N B Dholakia.
“With the registration of these records being digitized, the drudgery of manually registration and maintaining patient’s medical records has finally gone. Each patient is being given a unique identity number so any doctor attending to him can track his medical history even if the patient misplaces his case papers,” explains Dholakia.
One of the unique features of HMIS is that a patient registered in a government hospital in a particular district can avail medical treatment in any other district as long as it is covered under the computerized system. HIMS has been developed by data Consultancy Services (TCS) on Microsoft.NET technology with SQL Server as the data store, with its software being Menu-driven. The computerized system also supports data exchange integration with other biomedical equipment and applications.
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“The networking and infrastructure work under HMIS is almost complete in as many as 11 other government-run hospitals including Vadodara’s Jamnabai Hospital and also in the Rajkot, Nadiad and Sola hospitals. By the year end, the IT application will be be in place in all 25 district hospitals and six other major hospitals in State,” says Joint Secretary (Health) Mona Khandhar.
“After going hi-tech under HMIS, all these government-run hospitals will be connected with the State Health Commissionerate and the Secretariat in Gandhinagar, which will help us plan better and take prompt and vital policy decisions to tone up the hospital administration and improve health services,” Khandhar said.
The various software modules prepared under the system relate to hospital administration, patients’ medical history data, number of indoor/outdoor patients registered daily, laboratory tests, accounting and billing of drug purchases and inventory, patients’ complaints and their redressal, blood bank, trauma/nursing care, biomedical waste management, human resources, linen management and medical equipment maintenance. An employee information system module has also been prepared to track the latest position on attendance of medical staff, including doctors.
“HMIS has started yielding positive results in our hospital. Sitting in my office, it takes just a click of mouse to know how many indoor/outdoor patients are being treated daily or whether the attendance of medical and para-medical staff is enough to attend to them. Even our bosses in the State Health Commissionerate and the Secretariat can easily access all the relevant data on their computers,” says Gandhinagar Civil Hospital Superintendent Dr N B Dholakia.
“With the registration of these records being digitized, the drudgery of manually registration and maintaining patient’s medical records has finally gone. Each patient is being given a unique identity number so any doctor attending to him can track his medical history even if the patient misplaces his case papers,” explains Dholakia.
One of the unique features of HMIS is that a patient registered in a government hospital in a particular district can avail medical treatment in any other district as long as it is covered under the computerized system. HIMS has been developed by data Consultancy Services (TCS) on Microsoft.NET technology with SQL Server as the data store, with its software being Menu-driven. The computerized system also supports data exchange integration with other biomedical equipment and applications.
Courtesy : Expressindia.com
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