so ross and Dr Pratap Reddy got together at the telemedicine...

so ross and Dr Pratap Reddy got together at the telemedicine conference and have been working for two years on geting our management centre up in india ? maybe, paid $'s upfront to design, equip, set up and manage these centres ... lets say half a dozen at first .... what price medicvision then ??? no wonder the downrampers have been out in force ....

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remember this ??? http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/Mar15_2005.htm

International Telemedicine Conference India 2005
J N Tata Auditorium,
National Science Seminar Complex,
Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore.
March 17 - 19, 2005

In all, 35 invited lectures will be delivered by national and international experts in the field of telemedicine and allied fields. About 600 delegates have registered as delegates, including about 50 delegates from abroad. Speakers including .... .

The international speakers include Mr Ross Horley of Medic Vision, Australia .... Some of the national speakers include Dr Pratap Reddy of Apollo Hospitals ..

NOW check this ..... http://www.apollohospitalgroup.com/C_profile.htm

Dr. Prathap C Reddy, Chairman,
Apollo Hospitals Group

His dream is to make India the Healthcare Destination of the World.

Driven by a deep urge to create world-class medical infrastructure in India and make it more accessible and affordable to a large cross section of our people, Dr. Prathap Reddy opted to give up his successful practice in the US to return to India in the early eighties.

Thus, Dr. Reddy began what was truly the process of revolutionizing the path of the Indian Healthcare Industry. Undeterred by initial constraints Dr. Reddy succeeded in setting up the first center of the Apollo Hospitals Group in Chennai in 1983.

This was soon followed by India's first hospital consultancy body - the Indian Hospitals Corporation - and the commissioning of two more Tertiary Care Centers in India. Not only did he set a precedent for corporate healthcare in the country, but the Government of India soon recognized his enterprising efforts leading to Financial institutions amending their funding legislation to include hospitals

Board basing the scope of medical insurance.

Apollo over the last decade, has demonstrated that Indian skills are equivalent to the best centers in the world and has produced world-class results in the most complicated Cadaver Transplant.

Having steered the Apollo Hospitals Group to a number of locations within India, Dr. Reddy embarked on an Asian expansion plan with the first clinic in Dubai established in March 1999. Now, projects in Sri Lanka, Africa, Bangladesh and Oman are on the anvil.

His newest initiative is to integrate into healthcare, the digital nervous system that will eventually create a virtual Apollo Center anywhere any time. Apollo's major Web initiative, Med Varsity -a virtual medical university providing total access to experts in the field of medicine anywhere in the world and "MEDNET" - Hospital Systems Management package are slated to transform the way medicine is practiced in the country.

His plans for improved accessible and affordable healthcare for the millions of our people are an ongoing process and to bring country-wide, comprehensive health insurance scheme to our people is now his obsession.

The telemedicine technology that has been successfully introduced by Dr. Reddy in India will be a key enabler in transforming the healthcare delivery in India. His blueprint for the nation includes setting up of many rural hospitals. Dr. Reddy is now looking at secondary health centers in semi urban and smaller cities and has already identified 23 sites for the same. The maiden effort in this venture has been at Aragonda, his native village and Dr. Reddy envisages that this center will serve as a model for all such projects of the Apollo Group in rural India.

Dr. Reddy has been a keen promoter of active research and exchange programmes for Doctors at Apollo with leading medical institutions for providing excellent opportunities for clinical interaction with their counterparts abroad and also for constant update of their knowledge for the optimum benefit of the mankind.

Recognizing his pioneering role in transforming the Indian healthcare industry, the Government of India awarded him the prestigious Padma Bhushan in February 1991. He was also presented with the Sir Neel Ratan Sarkar Award for medical excellence in June 1998. Nominated by Business India as one of the Top Fifty personalities, who have made a difference to the country in the fifty years since Independence, the country has certainly recognized his contributions. The Royal college of Surgeons of Edinburgh has conferred the Award of fellowship Ad hominem.

Dr. Reddy's firmly believes that the Indian doctors have not got their true entitlement. He is convinced that India is not only well poised to meet the healthcare challenges of the millennium, but also equipped with the talent and strength to contribute in further developing the health and economy of the world.