Network resilience is a CERT
An EU agency has called for governments to set up a single Computer Emergency Response Team to improve the resilience of their computer networks. The European Network and Information Safety Agency (ENISA) says computer and information networks are now as important as power or water networks, and should be protected accordingly. In a report surveying […]
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Audit Commission criticises data quality
A report published by the Audit Commission has concluded that data quality is still “often not what it needs to be to meet the demands now being placed upon it.” The report, Figures You Can Trust: Data Quality in the NHS, says that although there have been some improvements since its 2004 report on Data […]
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Healthcare Commission calls for better early warning systems
The Healthcare Commission has said that early warning systems on patient safety incidents, which highlight key issues on quality of patient care, must be improved.
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Data blindness
The latest scandal to hit the NHS was obscured for years in rows about data. Its legacy should be far better systems to capture patient experience.
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UK Lords welcomes cross-border health
The United Kingdom’s House of Lords has welcomed a proposal from the European Commission for a Directive on patients’ rights to cross-border healthcare. The Lord’s EU Committee said that information was key to enabling cross-border healthcare to work effectively for EU citizens. However, the upper chamber of the House of Commons said that due to […]
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epSOS makes strong start
Europe’s flagship 12-nation electronic health record interoperability project, epSOS, has made a strong start with new countries now asking to join. Already the Smart Open Services for European Patients (epSOS) project involves 27-players from 12 European states. Participants include ministries of health, national competency centres and industry. Backed by €11m of European Commission funding, together […]
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UN, Vodafone and Rockefeller launch mHealth Alliance
The Rockefeller Foundation, the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Foundation – three of the leading foundations involved in global health, technology and humanitarian assistance – have banded together to create the Mobile Health Alliance. The new mHealth Alliance will work to maximise the impact of mobile health, especially in the developing world. Terry Kramer, […]
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Momentum builds on telemedicine
The head of the European Commission’s ICT for Health unit says there is growing momentum behind telemedicine across the continent. Speaking to E-Health Europe on the first day of the eHealth 2009 conference in Prague, Dr Gérard Comyn said that the Commission was working on a call for proposals for large scale telemedicine projects. In […]
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Commission not ‘Easter bunny’ on research
A meeting on benchmarking e-health developments has called for greater funding of large scale European e-health studies into use of e-health and its acceptance. The call came at an e-health benchmarking workshop held on Wednesday, run ahead of the opening of the e-Health 2009 ministerial conference in Prague. But the European Commission made clear that […]
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Europe to double e-health research
Viviane Reding today announced that the European Commission will double funding for e-health research over the next two years. The European Commissioner for Information Society and Media said that over the next two years the Commission will invest €163m in e-health research. The funding will be channelled through its framework seven funding call. Speaking by […]
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