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At last year’s BT e-Health Insider awards, NHS Choices won the best use of ICT in patient and citizen involvement category, sponsored by Fujitsu, for a new media sexual health initiative in the Humber region.
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Hong Kong plans e-health records
Hong Kong’s Food and Health Bureau has set out healthcare reform plans that include proposals to develop a Hong Kong-wide electronic patient record-sharing system. The shared electronic health record system would enable different public and private healthcare providers to enter, transfer and access patient data. The system would include mechanisms for obtaining patients’ consent, and […]
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Finland builds on local foundations
Finland is on track to build a national electronic health record repository, which clinicians will be legally required to start using from 2011. The ambitious project, which also involves the development of a national e-prescription service and a patient-viewable record called eView, represents one of the more comprehensive e-health initiatives in Europe. Crucially, it builds […]
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Scottish NHS to invest €1.8m in e-health
Online scanning to allow remote diagnosis for island-based patients and Scotland’s biggest telehealth system are among a range of hi-tech projects to help more patients to be treated quicker and closer to home. The Scottish NHS is to invest €1.8m in e-health – including €640,000 funding from the country’s major health IT contractor Atos Origin. […]
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epSOS makes strong start
Europe’s flagship 12-nation electronic health record interoperability project, epSOS, has made a strong start with new countries now asking to join. Already the Smart Open Services for European Patients (epSOS) project involves 27-players from 12 European states. Participants include ministries of health, national competency centres and industry. Backed by €11m of European Commission funding, together […]
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InterSystems Iberia wins computing prize
InterSystems Iberia, the Spanish arm of US health database and integration technology specialist InterSystems, has been awarded Spain’s national prize of Computer science and Health 2008. The prize is awarded annually by the Spanish Society of Computer science of the Health (SEIS). The prize recognizes InterSystems Iberia as the organization who made the greatest technological effort in […]
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Momentum builds on telemedicine
The head of the European Commission’s ICT for Health unit says there is growing momentum behind telemedicine across the continent. Speaking to E-Health Europe on the first day of the eHealth 2009 conference in Prague, Dr Gérard Comyn said that the Commission was working on a call for proposals for large scale telemedicine projects. In […]
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Commission not ‘Easter bunny’ on research
A meeting on benchmarking e-health developments has called for greater funding of large scale European e-health studies into use of e-health and its acceptance. The call came at an e-health benchmarking workshop held on Wednesday, run ahead of the opening of the e-Health 2009 ministerial conference in Prague. But the European Commission made clear that […]
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Carestream gets KBV e-health card certification
Carestream Health has become one of the first healthcare IT companies to receive the KBV certificate, eGK-Release-0, as part of the initial rollout of the electronic health smartcard in Germany. The Federal National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians awarded the certificate for the Care Radiology Information System (RIS) software. The certification provides confirmation that […]
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Sectra signs University Hospital of Amsterdam
Swedish Picture Archiving and Communicatiosn specialist Sectra has announced that it has signed a long-term deal with VUmc University Hospital of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. VUmc will install Sectra’s radiology information system for the handling of patient information and radiology images. The hospital handles approximately 150,000 radiology examinations per year. The hospital. “Sectra has worked […]
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