E-Health Europe’s industry news roundup 29.02.08
In the first of a new fortnightly series, E-Health Europe rounds up the European industry news for the week ending 29 February. GEN2PHEN Project – using the Web to study genetic variations A new project funded by the European Union now aims to harness the Web to capture and unify genetic information that impacts a […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 29.02.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 29 February 2008 featuring supplier news, appointments, awards and events. Supplier news Leicester signs managed service deal with Siemens University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust signed a managed service agreement with Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics for the delivery of its test requirements in blood chemistry, haematology, […]
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Ortivus reports losses due to delays
Swedish health IT developer, Ortivus, has released its year-end report for 2007, announcing an operating loss of 53.9m Swedish Krona, despite initiating several projects in Europe. The company has been installing its MobiMed and CoroNet systems across the continent, but report profits have suffered due to “delayed product launches and certain misjudgements.” MobiMed is a […]
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National media attention for anti-smartcard group
In Germany this week doctors and civil rights activists joined forces to organise a boycott of the German smartcard programme, attracting huge media interest, including national TV. The new alliance went public last Friday with a joint press conference at which it proclaimed the explicit goal of halting the smartcard health programme and move to […]
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Two pharmacy PHR projects launched in Germany
Two new pilots are underway to offer pharmacy personal health records (PHRs) in Germany. Both are based on a PHR including details of current medication and offer patients the potential to offer prescription ordering online. In the first of the two projects e-health vendor CompuGroup is partnering with the pioneering Dutch mail-order pharmacy DocMorris to […]
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SCM card terminal MKT+ certified
SCM Microsystems has received certification for its eHealth100 health card terminal to be used as an MKT+ terminal (multi-functional terminal) from Gematik, the organisation overseeing the implementation of the electronic health card program in Germany. It follows its approval to participate in phase one of the field tests for the electronic health card programme in […]
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Austrian hospitals get fingerprint biometrics
Austria’s biggest private hospital chain, the ‘Barmherzige Brüder’, is to begin using biometric fingerprinting to control access to IT systems. Once live, doctors and nurses will no longer have to remember a password to log onto the hospital information system (HIS). The ‘Barmherzige Brüder’ (merciful brothers) run nine hospitals in Austria, all of which will […]
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German doctors say no to centrally stored patient records
Recent reports about incidents of data loss in the British healthcare system have alarmed medical doctors in other European countries.
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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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Two hospital search engines launched
Two major German health insurance companies have presented new hospital search engines for citizens in order to increase transparency of the German healthcare system. Both services include quality data on medical interventions. However, their usability does not fulfil basic quality demands. For two years now, German hospitals have been legally obliged to publish annual quality […]
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