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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Vienna to host IHE’s 2009 Connectathon
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Europe will hold its ninth annual Connectathon event in Vienna, Austria, on 20-24 April next year. The Connectathon provides a unique opportunity for application interoperability testing, taking existing standards and frameworks and showing they work in real systems. The event will be hosted by the Austrian IHE initiative, which says […]
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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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iSoft introduces LabCentre in Netherlands
iSoft has announced that its LabCentre laboratory information system is to be introduced in the Netherlands. An iSoft spokesperson told EHE the system will be available immediately in the Netherlands and is to offer benefits including “extremely rapid implementation, ease of use, improved remote requesting, improved test turn around, embedded word processing and cancer dataset […]
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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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Austria kicks off Euro 2008 health website
The Austrian social security system, Sozialversicherung, has launched a new website to provide football fans with information on how to seek health advice in the country, during the three-week Euro 2008 tournament. The tournament, which kicked off on Saturday, will see fans from 16 European nations, following their teams in Austria and in neighbouring Switzerland […]
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CompuGroup buys German HIS vendor
CompuGroup has announced its takeover of hospital information systems supplier, Dahm Aktiengesellschaft, better known as Fliegel.
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iSoft Deutschland targets Russian labs
iSoft Deutschland has strengthened its position in Russia’s growing healthcare market after forming a distribution agreement for laboratory information systems (LIS). The company has signed a deal with ML Park of Moscow to distribute and support iSoft’s LIS. Russia’s health technology market is said to offer huge potential and be set for rapid growth. iSoft, […]
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“Hospital information systems are not indispensable”
Hubert Haag says that with 12,000 European healthcare customers T-Systems is a vital player in European e-health, Philipp Grätzel reports.
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