German health minister praises regional EPR project
The city of Bottrop, North Rhine Westphalia, has launched a private electronic patient record project that utilises the new German healthcare smartcard for patient identification. Knappschaft, one of the biggest health insurance companies in Germany, is co-ordinating the project which will run for three years with a budget of €5.6m. If successful, it will be […]
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Germany’s e-health smartcard scaled back
Key clinical components of Germany’s flagship national e-health smartcard programme look set to be dropped or delayed because of problems encountered in the first seven pilot sites.
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Siemens partners with Asklepios chain
Siemens is to make its hospital information system i.s.h.med part of the Asklepios Future Hospital Programme.
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Dutch EPR rollout on track
The Dutch national electronic patient record project is progressing slowly, but steadily. Sixty five doctors have been connected to the infrastructure so far. By the end of the year, this number will increase to 200. “We are confident that we can stick to our goal and have all 8,000 GPs using the national electronic patient […]
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IHE publishes tendering recommendations
The German section of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) has published a paper advising hospital representatives on how to phrase bid invitations for health IT solutions. The goal is to spread the IHE profiles more rapidly. Originally, IHE was an initiative that aimed to increase the interoperability of devices and software solutions in radiology. Today, […]
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CompuGroup restructures
CompuGroup’s subsidiary systema is integrating its hospital information system and rehabilitation and social care IT business. The ultimate goal is to bring together the different IT-solutions in the portfolio and to put them onto a single technological platform. CompuGroup took over systema, which has around 100 hospital customers in Austria and Eastern Europe, last year, […]
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TEN4Health improves cross-border cooperation
Representatives of the European Commission and of the European Parliament have highlighted the TEN4Health project as an example for improving cross-border healthcare services in Europe. Both citizens and hospitals are seen to benefit. The TEN4Health project brings together three health insurance companies and eleven hospitals from six EU Member States – Austria, Belgium, the Czech […]
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Doctors and pharmacists join smartcard critics
With its rollout coming closer, critics of the German smartcard project are once again becoming louder. Three regional political representative bodies of doctors, dentists and pharmacists are now supporting an anti-smartcard alliance. The “Stoppt die e-Card” alliance was launched in January this year and is a rather diffuse conglomerate of civil rights organisations, regional interest […]
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Medtronic to open CareLink for atrial fibrillation
Patients with atrial fibrillation or suspected atrial fibrillation could soon be monitored via Medtronic’s CareLink platform. This could substantially increase the number of users. CareLink is a secure online platform that can be used by doctors for cardiac patients who need telemonitoring. Medtronic officially launched CareLink in Europe at the beginning of 2008, after it […]
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Vodafone and Spanish Red Cross partner on 3G care
The Vodafone Espana Foundation, the Spanish Red Cross and Qualcomm, have joined together to launch a project using 3G broadband technology to trial new ways of connecting elderly people in Spain to their family and friends. Called ‘3G Connecting Generations’ the project will use 3G mobile broadband technology to deliver services through voice and videoconferencing […]
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