Gemalto to deliver Slovenia’s smartcard upgrade
Slovenia has chosen Gemalto to help develop its upgrade to their electronic health cards for Slovenian citizens. Gemalto will provide the Slovenian health service with its Coesys Issuance solution, which consists of middleware, digital signature capabilities, software applications, applets and cards. They will work together with Slovenian suppliers Cetis, who will provide the personalisation of […]
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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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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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“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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US group calls for national patient IDs
America’s National Alliance for Health Information Technology has called for a national voluntary system of unique patient identification numbers to be established. Under the proposals, patients would choose to subscribe to the voluntary system, which would assign them a unique ID for them and their medical information. A voluntary, patient-controlled system of unique identifiers is […]
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German industry group publishes telemedicine standards
Leading German electronic association the VDE has published a new set of standards for telemedicine to spur the development of telecare and telemonitoring. A series of recommendations are set out in the new telecare standards, addressing both the technical and organisational issues of telemonitoring, and may lead to the development of quality labels for telecare […]
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French patients able to update insurance smartcards
Smartcard security specialists Xiring and mobile phone operator SFR are working together to deploy the largest ‘Machine to Machine’ network in the French healthcare sector, allowing citizens to have their smartcards updated by pharmacists every time they are treated. The remote updating service ‘Le Point Xiring’, is being rolled out to 12,000 pharmacies, at a […]
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Major trial of PHRs starts in Germany
Germany’s largest health insurance fund, Barmer, is working with InterComponentWare AG (ICW) on a three year research study looking at the benefits and acceptance of personal health records. Barmer will use ICW’s web-based LifeSensor technology to offer a personal health record to its seven million members at a cost of 23.80 Euros per individual per year, […]
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Medica 2007: smartcard lows and EPR highs
Although there was good news for medical smartcard projects at the trade fair Medica 2007 in Düsseldorf, doctors critical of IT developments managed to attract more media attention than ever. But it was not all about cards: vendors of electronic patient records have turned surprisingly optimistic too. And there was a real rising star: the […]
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