IBM teams with Google to mobilise patient data
New software to enable data to be easily moved from remote personal monitoring devices into Google Health personal health records announced.
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US sets out privacy principles for EHRs
The US Department of Health and Human Services has published new privacy guidelines for electronic health records (EHRs), based on providing citizens with the ability to choose how far they want to share information. The new guidelines set out eight principals, desigend to facilitate the adoption of electronic health records by providing a consistent approach […]
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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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ICW says LifeSensor can handle 10,000 users
Simulated benchmark tests carried out on InterComponentWare’s LifeSensor personal health record (PHR) have shown that the system can handle 10,000 concurrent virtual uers and 10m records. Germany’s ICW conducted the test over a ten-day period at the Hewlett Packard European Performance and Benchmark Centre, Stuttgart, Germany. According to ICW the performance test verified LifeSensor’s capacity, […]
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Google Health launched
Internet search giant Google yesterday unveiled Google Health, its online personal health record service.
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German government unveils smartcard costs
The German ministry of health has issued details on recent and estimated future costs of the healthcare smartcard project in response to a parliamentary inquiry, initiated by the Liberal Democrats (FDP). Germany’s current government is made up of a ‘grand coalition’ of Conservatives and Social Democrats, with the FDP as the leading opposition party. The […]
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VDE paper supports telemonitoring for diabetics
German industry association, VDE, has published a paper on telemonitoring for diabetic patients. The paper urges politicians to make greater use of telemonitoring technology in order to reduce long-term complications of diabetes and costs for diabetic patients. The main function of telemonitoring in diabetes is to transmit blood sugar levels electronically, via landline or mobile […]
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DH seeks tougher sanctions for security breaches
The government is seeking an increase in penalties for NHS staff that breach the Data Protection Act. Health minister, Ben Bradshaw, made the pledge at a debate on the health select committee report on electronic patient records in Westminster last Thursday. This followed evidence read by chair of the committee, Kevin Barron, citing examples of […]
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The bigger picture at HIMSS
Jon Hoeksma visits the ever-expanding US healthcare IT show, HIMSS, where business intelligence and consumer-led e-health were big themes.
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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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