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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EU consults on ICT 2020 research strategy
The European Commission has launched a public consultation into its ‘no-holds barred’ ICT research and innovation staretgy.
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Philips to lead ‘euHeart’ project
Royal Philips Electronics is to lead a pan-European project to develop advanced computer modelling to enable highly personalised diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
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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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European Institute of Technology board appointed
The European Commission has announced appointments to the governing body of the new European Institute of Technology (EIT), an initiative intended to help drive technology innovation across the continent. By boosting the EU’s capacity to transform education and research results into tangible commercial innovation opportunities, the EIT is intended to help bridge the innovation gap […]
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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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Online pharmacies a ‘counterfeiting superhighway’
Over 60% of medicines purchased online are fake and could potentially be lethal for vulnerable patients according to EAASM.
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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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Europe-wide 112 emergency number gets website
The European Commission has stepped up efforts to push the use of the toll-free emergency number 112 in the EU ahead of the summer holiday season. A new website has been launched to tell citizens how to use 112 and what to expect from it, particularly when they travel within the EU. The website shows […]
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Eighty per cent of European GPs using e-records
A new Europe-wide survey on e-health has found that 87% of European GPs now use a computer, 80% of whom are using electronic patient records. The survey, which involved almost 7,000 General Practitioners, was carried out in late 2007. It examines issues including how European GPs store and send patients’ data such as lab reports […]
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