Doctors and pharmacists join smartcard critics
With its rollout coming closer, critics of the German smartcard project are once again becoming louder. Three regional political representative bodies of doctors, dentists and pharmacists are now supporting an anti-smartcard alliance. The “Stoppt die e-Card” alliance was launched in January this year and is a rather diffuse conglomerate of civil rights organisations, regional interest […]
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Rhön Klinikum says EPR key to particle therapy
German hospital group Rhön Klinikum AG, believes its new web-based electronic patient record will be a key success factor for its €120m new centre for particle therapy.
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German diabetes risk management study begins
A new collaborative research project has been launched in Germany to examine how computer technology can be used to help predict risk factors associated with diabetes. Called ‘computer assisted diabetes risk management (CDRM)’ will examine how different e-health solutions can improve diabetes care. The study, which will be at medium scale, will focus on people […]
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German hospitals count benefits of SAP
Hospitals in Germany say they expect regional e-health networks to deliver substantial cost savings of up to €2 million a year.
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Version 3 of HL7 released
Developer of global healthcare standards, Health Level Seven, has announced the release of Version 3 Normative Edition 2008, a globally-defined suite of specifications based on HL7’s Reference Information Model. The suite provides a single source that allows implementers of Version 3 specifications to work with the set of messages, data types, and terminologies needed to […]
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iSoft reveals European and UK deals
iSoft has announced that it has secured new business and renewal of contracts worth €8.4m in the UK and central Europe over the past month. iSoft Northern Europe says it has secured new orders worth €3.1 m, while iSoft UK and Ireland has agreed contract extensions worth £4.22m for ongoing maintenance and support. New orders […]
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‘IT has generated substantial savings for us’
Philipp Grätzel speaks to Uwe Pöttgen, head of corporate department IT at Asklepios, about the ‘Asklepios Future Hospital Programme’.
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Ambient assisted living set for growth
The German association of the electronics industry, VDE, has called for politicians and insurance companies to increase their engagement in IT projects on ambient assisted living (AAL). VDE says there is massive potential for growth in the AAL market, if the right financial incentives are put in place and regulatory and political measures taken to […]
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iSoft introduces LabCentre in Netherlands
iSoft has announced that its LabCentre laboratory information system is to be introduced in the Netherlands. An iSoft spokesperson told EHE the system will be available immediately in the Netherlands and is to offer benefits including “extremely rapid implementation, ease of use, improved remote requesting, improved test turn around, embedded word processing and cancer dataset […]
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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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