Norway forced to backtrack on mass surveillance track and trace app
Norway has been forced to stop loading data to its national Covid-19 track and trace app after a ruling by the national data privacy watchdog.
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Norway healthcare cyber-attack ‘could be biggest of its kind’
The cyber-attack against Norway’s largest health authority could be one of the biggest of its kind in healthcare, sources have told Digital Health News.
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Norway signs €90m deal with IBM
The Central Norway Regional Health Authority has signed a deal worth almost €90m (£75m) with IBM for IT systems to support reporting of health information, logistics and finance across all of the country’s hospitals.
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Logica in Norwegian clinical portal deal
Logica has signed a deal to deliver a clinical desktop system, supplied by Orion Health, to healthcare organisations covered by the South-Eastern Norwegian Regional Health Authority.
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Norwegian nurses warm to robots
A Norwegian study has shown that staff in the nursing care sector would welcome sensor and robot technology in the homes of the elderly and in nursing homes.
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Camera phones can help diagnosis
Taking photographs or video of unusual symptoms on an ordinary camera phone can help doctors diagnose uncommon problems, according to researchers.
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ElderGames targets silver surfers
European trials of an interactive game platform, resembling a vintage video game table, specifically designed for the elderly have completed their first phase. The new video game table looks like a small dining table with an embedded flat panel display, around which players sit and play a series of games with one another. The suite […]
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Centre of Health Technology opens in Oslo
A European Centre of Health Technology has been opened in Oslo, Norway. The centre was officially opened by Parliamentary Secretary of the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services, Kari Henriksen. Developed by strategic co-operation between HP, Telenor, Microsoft, Imatis and Cisco, the centre is equipped like a small hospital, complete with a patient room, […]
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Study praises Norwegian EPRs
A study by researchers at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has found that GP electronic patient records in Norway has led to better availability of records, but unsatisfactory access to information. The study by academics Tom Christensen and Anders Grimsmo says that the deployment of EPRs to GPs across the country has […]
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Norwegian 24-hour telephone advice launched
Norway’s Norsk Helse Telefon 24 (NHT24) a private provider of telephone triage services to Norway and other Scandinavian countries has chosen Clinical Solutions to provide the software behind its telephone health advice service. NHT24 was launched in June, offering subscription-based telephone advice services to people living in Scandinavian countries. "NHT24 is entirely a private […]
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