Insurance companies to pay doctors for smartcards
After a year of negotiations, German health insurance companies have agreed to pay doctors for the smartcard readers and software upgrades that the new German healthcare smartcards necessitate. The German ministry of health has recently increased its pressure on insurance companies and doctors, following an announcement that the smartcard rollout will start later this year. […]
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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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Evolution, not revolution
Jens Naumann, head of the German industrial association of health IT companies, talks to Philipp Gratzel about the forthcoming roll out of electronic health cards.
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I am not a gambler
Frank Gotthardt, head of Gemany’s fast-growing CompuGroup, tells E-Health Europe why he was not willing to buy iSoft at any price.
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German smartcard rollout brought forward
In a surprise move, the German health IT agency, Gematik, has accelerated the schedule of the German national smartcard project to April 2008.
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Gematik approves RFID smartcard terminal
Smartcard technology provider, Assa Abloy Identification Technologies Group, has received approval from Gematik to participate in phase one of field tests of the electronic health card programme in Germany. The company’s smartcard terminal, is claimed to be the only one that supports contact free radio frequency identification device (RFID) authentication, enabling health professionals to securely […]
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SCM gain Gematik accreditation
SCM Microsystems have announced that their eHealth 100 card terminal has received approval from Gematik to participate in phase one of field tests of the electronic health card programme in Germany. The company claim to be the first to receive approval from Gematik for its new card terminal, which was developed specifically for the German […]
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