Health bodies to get details of citizens’ email and internet use
Public bodies in the UK, including health authorities, could be given the power to access details of everyone’s personal text messages, emails and internet use if new Home Office proposals are passed. The British government office has published a consultation paper, which considers making logs of all telephone calls and internet usage, including e-mails mandatory […]
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Health bodies could access communication logs
Public bodies, including health authorities, could be able to access information about all personal calls and internet use under proposals from the Home Office. The department has published a consultation paper that considers making logs of all telephone calls and internet usage, including e-mails and Voice over Internet Protocol calls, mandatory for at least 12 […]
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Three standard types needed for e-health
A sub-group of the European Standardisation Organisations alliance has published a paper warning of gaps and overlaps in existing e-health standards. The group, known as eHealth-INTEROP, says three types of standard need to be focused on to enable the achievement of interoperability in e-health – base standards, profiles and interoperability specifications. The document, published as […]
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Europe aims for interoperable EHRs by 2015
The European Commission has published new draft of interoperability guidelines setting out a roadmap to achieve interoperable electronic health records across the continent by the middle of the next decade. At the heart of the recommendation is the premise that the basic components needed to support cross-border interoperability also apply to the local, regional and […]
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Europe aims for borderless electronic health records
The European Commission has launched two major e-health initiatives aimed at achieving interoperable e-health systems across Europe
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EC to hold e-health management workshop
The European Commission is holding an e-health management workshop on 9 June in Barcelona, Spain. The workshop will review IT management issues in e-health, and is aimed at two sets of people: those with a particular interest in e-health and those with a general interest in public services and their use of information and communication […]
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EC publishes Potorož Declaration
The European Commission has published the Potorož Declaration, a list of objectives to achieve before the next EC e-health conference. The Declaration lists five goals for EC member states to achieve over the next 12 months, as part of the work it has published in its e-health roadmaps. These have been agreed by the member […]
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EC encourages e-health innovation
The European Commission’s Information, Society and Media team has issued a new guidance document encouraging innovation-friendly procurement in e-health. The guidance says that the European e-health market “suffers from the fragmentation of public demand which in turn leads to a lack of exchangeability of products and services”. It adds: “There are also barriers for the […]
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EC uploads eTen videos to its website
The European Commission has added videos of some of the eTen funded initiatives on its website in order to provide support for the ongoing projects funded under the EC programme, including six e-health related films. eTen was a European Community programme, which provided funds to help make e-services available throughout the European Union. The funding […]
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EU Parliament amends assisted living project
Members of the European Parliament have stressed that the new Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) programme must be cost effective and respect privacy. The AAL programme is an initiative by the European Parliament to improve the quality of life of older people and help them live independently for longer, through the use of ICT. It is […]
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