Persistent Systems to Team on New Industrywide Digital Platform for Clinical Care

Persistent Systems and Partners HealthCare, founded by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, announced today a strategic collaboration to develop a new industry-wide open-source platform with the goal of bringing digital transformation to clinical care. Persistent will help the digital transformation of clinical care at Partners and, together with Partners, develop an open-source platform to lower the barriers for knowledge exchange across health care providers and enable a new generation of decision support apps in the clinical environment.

This four-year collaboration will bring together the world class clinicians and researchers at Partners HealthCare with Persistent’s innovative healthcare technology and product engineering expertise.

The co-developed digital platform will be based on Substitutable Medical Applications & Reusable Technologies (SMART), an open, standards-based technology platform along with Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). The platform will enable provider systems across the country to rapidly and cost effectively deploy industry-leading best practices in clinical care across their ecosystems.

“The collaboration serves as a powerful example of how healthcare visionaries and leaders in technology can create positive disruption. By combining forces with Partners HealthCare to design this platform, we’re striving to bring continuous transformation of the healthcare experience. We’re confident this is just the start” said Sudhir Kulkarni, President of Digital at Persistent Systems.

“Making innovative clinical tools available to our physicians at Partners and across the country relies on strong collaborations between academia and industry,” said Dr. Anne Klibanski, Chief Academic Officer at Partners HealthCare. “The co-development of this platform should yield a new tool that integrates applications directly into the clinical workflow -- ultimately improving patient care.”

Sandy Aronson, Executive Director of IT for Partners Personalized Medicine recognizes that “advances in clinical analytics and machine learning have the potential to drive medical discovery at a pace never seen before but we currently lack the ability to efficiently place resulting breakthroughs in the hands of clinicians. Through this collaboration we will band together with other institutions to extend electronic health record (EHR) ecosystems so that the benefits of this work are quickly and broadly delivered to patients”.

India Fast Growing Market for VMware’s Computing Business

VMware, Inc., a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility, sees growth in adoption of its digital workspace solutions by Indian organizations. With more than 1 million end-points managed in India, VMware saw some notable customer wins including – Max Life Insurance, MSC Software, Malayala Manorama, Karunya University, among others.

 VMware is one of the industry leaders in delivering a secure digital workspace which gives IT a more efficient, simplified way of managing users, devices and applications. The average return on investment for digital workspace expenditures is 150 percent. In 2016, VMware surveyed more than 1,200 IT decision makers, IT influencers, and business decision makers worldwide and found 78 percent have successfully executed or are actively executing mobile initiatives and are moving to a digital workspace. Digital workspaces deliver better security, reduce IT management costs and complexity, and prevent data loss.

 “The digital workspace is the defining model for end-user computing in the mobile cloud era. Business is changing in India and digital workspaces are adding real business value for organizations, and at the same time allowing users to focus on the work to be done, not the technology in their hands,” said Arun Parameswaran, Managing Director, VMware India. “We are at the heart of this change by delivering a comprehensive end-user computing platform built on a mobile-cloud architecture that enables organizations to drive digital transformation.”

 “Enterprise mobility is witnessing a paradigm shift towards consolidation of enterprise systems that seamlessly enable not just multi-platform devices and apps, but also emerging connected devices such as wearables, IoT, machine learning and virtual reality systems. Proliferation of mobile endpoints has compelled businesses to address threat management with automated and adaptive defence mechanisms while simultaneously driving richer user experience. This year will see a change in how businesses approach mobility, from a device-focused approach to a more comprehensive strategy. To ensure the long-term success of enterprise mobile strategy, many organizations are implementing ‘Mobile Center of Excellence’ where multiple stakeholders having IT and business expertise are collaborating to reshape business models, maximize corporate performance and derive business value,” said Benoy CS, Director, Digital Transformation (ICT) Practice, Frost & Sullivan.

“India represents a complex and competitive life insurance market. Technology plays a critical role in partnering with business and gives us a competitive edge in the market. Business Mobility is one key area where we are focusing on to enable our workforce to work more efficiently in servicing our growing customer base better. We’re working closely with VMware to help us with the end user computing strategy to empower our employees, while keeping our confidential information secure,” said Ekhlaque Bari, Executive Vice President & Head IT, Max Life Insurance.

 “Delivering critical news as it happens is the advantage you have over competition in the publishing industry. Thanks to VMware AirWatch, our reporters can break news live from the field, much to our readers’ delight,” said VV Jacob, General Manager, Systems, Malayala Manorama.

Building on the digital workspace innovations to accelerate its adoption, VMware recently introduced new updates to its award winning Workspace ONE solution. These updates make it easy for IT to deliver unified access and single sign-on experience to Intranet applications, and will offer richer conditional access capabilities that combine real-time security hygiene with compliance automation. Updates to the market-leading AirWatch Unified Endpoint Management portfolio have enhanced support across OS platforms for mobile (iOS, Android), desktop (Windows 10, macOS), purpose-built (ruggedized) and IoT endpoints to simplify provisioning and end-user onboarding.

T20 Team Chonkpur Cheetahs Welcome a Woman Player in the Team

Amazon India’s latest T20 campaign Chonkpur Cheetahs, launches the fourth film. The campaign India ke Sapno ki Apni Dukaan which portrays a series of film is a journey of an aspiring team to reach their goal of playing in T20. The campaign converses various ways in which Amazon enables the team to get one step closer to their dream of playing in T20. The dreams of the Chonkpur Cheetahs is a metaphor for the dreams of millions of Indians and how Amazon can enable them in small way to achieve those by providing access.

The upcoming fourth film introduces a wicketkeeper who to the audience, a key player who has been missing in the team so far. The coach and the team together stumble upon their potential wicketkeeper under unusual circumstances, who runs a business with her brother. The coach along with the team offers her to be the wicketkeeper after they observe her quick reflexes and sturdy hands while working at the shop. She happily agrees and becomes a part of the team.

Commenting on the recent film, Ravi Arun Desai, Director, Mass and Brand Marketing, Amazon India said “We are happy to witness how Chonkpur Cheetahs has taken the nation by storm with the dream team, becoming a household name. We believe that dreams and chase to them is not limited by gender or by anything. As Amazon, we want to show our support to millions of Indians who have dreams and the passion to pursue their dreams by being their partner in this pursuit. In this particular film leaving conventional wisdom, the team shows that they value talent above all and get a women wicketkeeper for their team. With over 10 crore products, Amazon is truly “India ke Sapno ki Apni Dukaan” – a place where you will find anything that you need to fulfil your aspirations just  a click away, so go ahead and be a Chonkpur Cheetah!”

Shoppers Stop Creates 160 Feet High World’s Largest Cricket Bat!

In celebration of the ongoing cricket fervor in the nation, Shoppers Stop has created the world’s largest cricket bat which measures 160 feet in height and 18 feet in width.

The record-setting cricket bat is displayed at Magrath Road Junction (opposite Garuda mall). To mark the occasion, Shoppers Stop invited Mithali Raj - Captain of the Indian Women's Cricket Team to sign the cricket bat. Also present for the occasion was Govind Shrikhande, Customer Care Associate and Managing Director, Shoppers Stop Ltd.

An ode to cricket aficionados, this one-of-its-kind cricket bat has been made in a record time of 10 days by the in-house Visual Merchandising team. Over 60 people worked round the clock to construct this enormous structure. Shoppers Stop is set to apply for a mention in the Limca Book of Records.

Govind Shrikhande, Customer Care Associate & Managing Director, Shoppers Stop Ltd said, “Our focus is to create exciting and engaging experiences for our customers and thereby bring the romance back to retail. The ongoing cricket buzz gave us the perfect opportunity to delight our customers by creating this record-setting world’s largest cricket bat. And who better to celebrate this occasion than the Captain of our beloved Indian Women’s Cricket Team Mithali Raj.”

Ace Cricketer and Captain of the Indian Women’s Cricket Team, Mithali Raj commented, “It is so great to see Shoppers Stop, India’s leading and most loved fashion retailer, celebrate Cricket, one of India’s most loved sports, in such a wonderful way. The record-setting 160 ft. cricket bat looks remarkable. It is a great opportunity for cricket lovers to express their love and enthusiasm for the game.”

Catch the world’s largest cricket bat installed at Magrath Road, Bengaluru.

ISRO’s South Asia Satellite Launch on May 5 Not to Benefit Pakistan

India plans to launch on May 5 the 'South Asia Satellite' that will benefit all the countries in the region, except Pakistan which is not a part of the project.

"It's going up in the first week of May," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman A S Kiran Kumar told PTI in a telephonic interview.

According to ISRO sources, the launch of this communication satellite (GSAT-9) is scheduled for May 5 on board the space agency's rocket GSLV-09 from Sriharikota spaceport.

Kiran Kumar said the satellite, with a lift-off mass of 2,195 kg, would carry 12 ku-band transponders.

"Pakistan is not included in that. They did not want (to be part of the project)," he said.

Sources said the satellite is designed for a mission life of more than 12 years.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made an announcement about this satellite during the SAARC Summit in Kathmandu in 2014 calling it a "gift to India's neighbours."

"It (name) was changed to this (South Asia Satellite) because of that only (Pakistan not being part of it)," Kiran Kumar said.

Earlier, it was named as 'SAARC Satellite.'

"Basically, it (the satellite) is meant for providing communication and disaster support, connectivity among States (countries of South Asia region). It will provide a significant capability to each of these participating States in terms of DTH, certain VSAT capacity plus linking among the states for both disaster information transfer and also in terms of library type of things," he said.

"So, there is a significant amount of inter-linking possible among the States (these countries)," Kiran Kumar said.

According to ISRO officials, there is a potential for each participating country to use a dedicated transponder with a capacity of 36 to 54 Mhz for its own internal use.

Each country would be responsible for content generation and its use, they said.

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Apple Recruits Google Satellite Executives for Its New Hardware Team

After revolutionizing phones, Apple Inc. is testing self-driving cars and exploring augmented reality. Recent hires suggest the company is now also looking to the skies.

The iPhone maker has recruited a pair of top Google satellite executives for a new hardware team, according to people familiar with the matter. John Fenwick, who led Google’s spacecraft operations, and Michael Trela, head of satellite engineering, left Alphabet Inc.’s 

Google for Apple in recent weeks, the people said. 

They report to Greg Duffy, co-founder of camera maker Dropcam, who joined Apple earlier this year, the people said. They asked not to be identified talking about Apple’s private plans. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment, as did Google. Fenwick, Trela and Duffy didn’t respond to requests for comment.

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With the recruits, Apple is bringing into its ranks two experts in the demanding, expensive field of satellite design and operation. At the moment, these endeavors typically fall into two fields: satellites for collecting images and those for communications.In a regulatory filing last year, Boeing Co. detailed a plan to provide broadband access through more than 1,000 satellites in low-earth orbit. The aerospace company has talked with Apple about the technology company being an investor-partner in the project, a person familiar with the situation said. It’s unclear if those talks will result in a deal.

At the annual Satellite 2017 conference in Washington DC last month, industry insiders said Boeing’s project was being funded by Apple, Tim Farrar, a satellite and telecom consultant at TMF Associates Inc., wrote in a recent blog. A Boeing spokesman declined to comment. “It’s not hard to discern why Apple might want to consider a satellite constellation,” Farrar wrote, noting a Wall Street Journal report that Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. has forecast $30 billion in revenue from satellite internet by 2025.

A lure for technology companies like Apple, Google and Facebook Inc. is to connect billions of people who don’t have internet access yet. The broadband services being explored by Boeing and others would feature low latency and faster speeds than existing cellular systems. “You have a new wave of enthusiastic people who aren’t inhibited by the hard knocks of the past,” said Roger Rusch, who heads satellite consulting firm TelAstra Inc.

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jivi Mobiles Unveils ‘Sumo T3000’ with 3600 mAh Battery in Karnataka

jivi Mobiles – the Mobile Division of Magicon Impex Pvt Ltd, - has expanded its portfolio of feature phones with the launch of Sumo T3000 at Rs 1490 in Karnataka. The feature phone has a powerful battery of 3600 mAh that makes phone last up to 50 days (under standard operating conditions) in standby, even with 3600 mAh battery, phone looks slim and stylish. These innovations from jivi further the product philosophy of amalgamation of technology meeting millions of lives.

Pankaj Anand, CEO, jivi Mobiles said “Today we’ve added a new feature phone to our line up in Karnataka with a huge battery that meets the need of people working for long hours. Karnataka is a very important market for us.” 

jivi Mobiles is offering double assurance policy “111 days” replacement warranty & free screen (breakage) replacement on all its feature phone range. The company has also launched a scheme applicable with 5 jivi models namely Sumo T3000, N210, N3270, N4332 and N300. On purchase of any of the model, customer will get free T-shirt worth Rs. 300.

Pankaj Anand, CEO, jivi Mobiles added “We have taken a thoughtful step in catering to the needs of the less privileged section of the society. We are the only company in India to offer the scheme of “double assurance policy” in which our customers are not only secured for 111 days, but also have a replacement for their screens in case it gets broken for any functional reason.”

jivi Mobiles revolutionary double assurance policy “111 Days Replacement Policy” has been introduced where in case of functional failures, customer will get replacement, within first 111 days from date of activation/Purchase Bill. This policy is effective from April 15, 2017 i.e. on all handsets which are activated or purchased on or after April 15, 2017.

“Screen Breakage Policy” has been introduced under which customer will be given free screen replacement on all jivi Models, for one time only within first 111 days from date of activation/Purchase Bill. This policy is effective from April 15, 2017 i.e. on all handsets which are activated or purchased on or after Apr 15, 2017.

Sumo T3000 is an innovative product priced at Rs1490 comes with 3600 mAh battery, Dual Sim, 2.8 inch screen size with screen resolution of 240*320 pixels. The device also features like Camera with flash, Vibrator, Bluetooth, FM Radio, Auto call record, Mobile Tracker, Torch Light, Sound record, GPRS, WAP, speed Dial, Calculator, Indian Calendar, Festival List with Tithi Details  , World clock , Ebook  Reader, Schedule  Power On/Off, Power management,  Blacklist, Contacts  Import/Export to Memory Card , Pre Loaded Game, jivi App, Schedule SMS…

Every feature that is present in the feature phone has been made keeping in mind the requirements and understanding the mindset of the people. jivi mobile promises to offer mobility solutions that stand on three firm pillars of On the go Concept (OTG), durable and cost effective products. All jivi products meet Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) specifications. The device would be ‘Made in India’, atour newly opened facility in Mahipalpur.

Anand further added “We are extremely happy to introduce our new device Sumo T3000 to match the needs of people who are constantly supporting us in a big way. The device has a potent battery which will help the people to keep them going when they work tirelessly with all their might. No frills and only right amount of features make this affordable phone a wise choice for people who want to invest their hard earned money on something worth their sweat.”

jivi Mobiles has taken a major step in the direction of realizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Vision of ‘Make in India’ by setting up two new facilities with an investment of Rs. 200 crores. jivi Mobile first factory is in Mahipalpur, New Delhi built up on an area of 15000 sq. ft. which would cater to North and East India demand of jivi Mobile phones. Second facility of jivi Mobiles which is located in Lonavla, Maharashtra to cater to the South and Western parts of the country, would be operational in the coming months.

The purpose of setting up these manufacturing facilities is to save on the imports duties and hence cut on the manufacturing cost by 10-15%. We would pass on the benefit to our customers,” said Pankaj Anand.