Agfa leads in German health IT market
A new study has found that the German IT market remains extremely fragmented, with Agfa in the number one position.
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German insurer AOK requires doctors to digitise
The AOK Baden-Württemberg, a regional German health insurance company with three million members, has signed a direct primary care contract with up to 5,000 doctors in the state of Baden-Württemberg that requires them to digitise. Doctors can only take part in the contract online, which replaces the traditional collective doctor contracts that have existed in […]
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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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Mobile health and EPR feature at CeBIT
CeBIT in Hannover is the biggest consumer IT show in the world, and is the place for laptop-maniacs, iPod-addicts and sat nav junkies to get their techno-fix. But as well as gadgets, it is also becoming a key place to watch out for e-health innovations. While the main show runs from 4-9 March, a special […]
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Helios Clinic Group to introduce doctors’ portal
Germany’s Helios Clinic Group is to introduce a group wide doctors’ portal product called jesaja.net, to be delivered by CompuGroup subsidiary ISPro GmbH. Use of the jesaja.net portal by Helios clinics for acute cases will help improve secure communication between doctors and hospitals across Germany’s public and private healthcare systems. After the first successful evaluations […]
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Two pharmacy PHR projects launched in Germany
Two new pilots are underway to offer pharmacy personal health records (PHRs) in Germany. Both are based on a PHR including details of current medication and offer patients the potential to offer prescription ordering online. In the first of the two projects e-health vendor CompuGroup is partnering with the pioneering Dutch mail-order pharmacy DocMorris to […]
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Helios Hospitals to connect doctors via EPR
Helios hospital group is launching a Germany-wide electronic patient record project to allow electronic communication with referring doctors in private practices. The system is running in two regions already, and a wider roll out to most of the 58 Helios hospitals is in place for next year. Technically, the system is a web service enabling doctors […]
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CompuGroup generates new business from Medica
CompuGroup has announced that it successfully signed up over 300 new customers during the Medica 2007 healthcare fair in Düsseldorf, whilst many existing customers took the opportunity to collect information on new versions of their information systems for doctors or extensions for it. The company says its success at Medica is based on numerous novel […]
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Medica 2007: smartcard lows and EPR highs
Although there was good news for medical smartcard projects at the trade fair Medica 2007 in Düsseldorf, doctors critical of IT developments managed to attract more media attention than ever. But it was not all about cards: vendors of electronic patient records have turned surprisingly optimistic too. And there was a real rising star: the […]
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CompuGroup eyes new European targets
CompuGroup Holding AG, the German provider of E-health solutions, is expanding its business to focus on growth in South-East and Eastern Europe with the creation of a new business unit called CompuGroup CEE. The company says that its new business unit, which will be based in Vienna, will focus on addressing the e-health markets in […]
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