Health security defeats RAF testers
A team of RAF security experts recently spent three days attempting to penetrate the wireless networking component of a managed service covering healthcare for British Forces in Germany – and failed. The secure networking is part of a managed service, PAS 2.0, built and hosted by Dataline Software for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation […]
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Germany’s e-health smartcard scaled back
Key clinical components of Germany’s flagship national e-health smartcard programme look set to be dropped or delayed because of problems encountered in the first seven pilot sites.
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Medica: Crisis? What crisis?
Is the health industry blind to economic reality and guilty of wishful thinking? Philipp Grätzel reports from Medica.
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Siemens partners with Asklepios chain
Siemens is to make its hospital information system i.s.h.med part of the Asklepios Future Hospital Programme.
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iSoft announces new products at Medica
iSoft has launched two integrated care systems for the German market, based on the company’s new Lorenzo software.
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Germany’s GEK picks Atos for e-health card
German health insurer, Gmünder ErsatzKasse (GEK), has signed a five-year deal with Atos World line, to implement and operate the new German electronic health card (EHC) on its behalf. During 2009, GEK plans to issue 30,000 cards per day in order to provide its 1.7million members in Germany with the new e-health card. Due to […]
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Germany to accredit online pharmacies
The German Ministry of Health is working on a new interactive labelling system to increase public confidence in online pharmacies. The new interactive label, which will show the pharmacy is accredited, will be awarded to all online pharmacies with an official license to sell to the German market. The German online pharmacy label will be […]
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Nuance buys Philips Speech Recognition Systems
Philips has sold its Philips Speech Recognition Systems (PSRS) to US-based Nuance Communications for €66m ($96.1m).
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iSoft wins award for European labs strategy
ISoft Germany has been named a strategic leader in the European Laboratory Information Systems (LIS) market by analysts Frost & Sullivan.
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IHE publishes tendering recommendations
The German section of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) has published a paper advising hospital representatives on how to phrase bid invitations for health IT solutions. The goal is to spread the IHE profiles more rapidly. Originally, IHE was an initiative that aimed to increase the interoperability of devices and software solutions in radiology. Today, […]
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