TietoEnator’s Health boss sets out vision
Arto Ryymin of TietoEnator tells Philipp Grätzel how health IT will help the company get back on track.
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Royal Dutch Pharmaceutical Society outsources IT to BT
The Royal Dutch Pharmaceutical Society (KNMP) is to outsource its “mission critical” IT to BT under a five year, €2.6m deal. Among other services, the contract will cover the secure hosting of the society’s office automation and shared storage environment, migration to Microsoft Exchange and the telehousing of applications in BT’s Nieuwegein data centre. BT […]
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Centre of Health Technology opens in Oslo
A European Centre of Health Technology has been opened in Oslo, Norway. The centre was officially opened by Parliamentary Secretary of the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services, Kari Henriksen. Developed by strategic co-operation between HP, Telenor, Microsoft, Imatis and Cisco, the centre is equipped like a small hospital, complete with a patient room, […]
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Kaiser signs up for Microsoft’s HealthVault
Kaiser Permanente, the largest US nonprofit health maintenance organisation, has announced it will participate in Microsoft’s personal health record initiative linking Kaiser’s existing My Health Manager system to the HealthVault platform. The partnership, announced Monday, will begin with a pilot project open to Kaiser’s 156,000 employees, which will run until November. Assuming the pilot is […]
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TriZetto signs Netherlands marketing deal
A US company that is slowly helping to revolutionise the laborious procedure of processing claims for health insurance companies is making its largest push into Europe to date by signing a marketing deal for the Netherlands. The TriZetto Group, a producer of software for health benefits administration, has tapped Unisys Nederland NV to market, distribute […]
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AOK launches medication comparator website
German health insurer, AOK, has launched a new database that lets users compare different medications. The database, on AOK’s website, is available to free to all registered members, where they can compare any drugs for any condition. Both prescription drugs and those freely on sale are included, and the database distinguishes between the two categories, […]
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Web 2.0 revolution underway in healthcare
Internet developments that brought us sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia are now set to revolutionise healthcare.
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E-health 2.0: health’s consumer revolution
E-Health Insider this week publishes a new research report on web 2.0 in healthcare. Lindsey Birnsteel reports.
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Dutch health charity deploy new CRM
Database management specialist, Saturn Corporation, has implemented its Eprísa customer relationship management (CRM) software, at the Dutch healthcare foundation, Hospitallbroeders. Eprisa enables users to access information according to their user profile. It displays all relevant data on one screen and restricts data so the user only sees what they are entitled to. John Mitchell, the […]
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Commission says e-health must grow up
The deputy head of European Commission’s ICT for Health unit has called for everyone involved in developing e-health to seize advantage of the current window of opportunity to move from pilots to large-scale implementation.
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