Better search: a cure for cyberchondria?
Search engines may need to be redesigned to stop people turning into “cyberchondriacs”, a study by Microsoft Research has suggested. The study found that general search engines can lead people to escalate medical concerns – so that, for example, they start by searching for “headache” and end up looking for “brain tumour.” It also found […]
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Vienna to host IHE’s 2009 Connectathon
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Europe will hold its ninth annual Connectathon event in Vienna, Austria, on 20-24 April next year. The Connectathon provides a unique opportunity for application interoperability testing, taking existing standards and frameworks and showing they work in real systems. The event will be hosted by the Austrian IHE initiative, which says […]
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Hungary signs e-health deal with GE Healthcare
The Hungarian government has awarded GE Healthcare a €3.3m deal to lead a project on developing telecare services for elderly citizens.
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IB Solutions to develop database of Irish doctors
IB Solutions, an IBA Health Group company, has won a five-year contract to develop a system for the country’s 17,000 doctors to register membership online. The €600,000 contract was awarded by the Medical Council of Ireland, the deal includes capital spend and support for five years. The iB Solutions web-enabled development will support registration, retention, […]
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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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Intel personal health management system
A home medical device, designed to be part of a remote personal home care management system has been launched by Intel.
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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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Interoperable PHRs could save US $21bn a year
A US study has projected that personal health records have the potential to save the US healthcare system €16.3 billion a year.
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