Slovenia rolls out e-health card
The Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia has announced that it will roll-out a new electronic health insurance card system across the country.
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Europe-wide 112 emergency number gets website
The European Commission has stepped up efforts to push the use of the toll-free emergency number 112 in the EU ahead of the summer holiday season. A new website has been launched to tell citizens how to use 112 and what to expect from it, particularly when they travel within the EU. The website shows […]
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e-Health without frontier conference details issued
Details of the European Union-backed ‘e-Health without frontiers’ conference to be held in Slovenia, 6-7 May, have been belatedly been released. The event, which will be held in Portoz, Slovenia, will focus on the theme of e-Health without frontiers. The e-health conference coincides with Slovenia holding the presidency of the EU Council The conference is […]
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European ICT market due double digit growth
The European health ICT market is now worth an estimated 20bn annually and set for double digit growth, according to Ilias Iakovidis
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CompuGroup eyes new European targets
CompuGroup Holding AG, the German provider of E-health solutions, is expanding its business to focus on growth in South-East and Eastern Europe with the creation of a new business unit called CompuGroup CEE. The company says that its new business unit, which will be based in Vienna, will focus on addressing the e-health markets in […]
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NETC@RDS moves to phase two deployment
The initial deployment of phase two the NETC@RDS project, an online service for the European Health Insurance Card (eEHIC) has begun. A European Commission Information Society & Media spokesperson told E-Health Europe: “The NETC@RDS Project aims to improve the access of mobile citizens to trans-European health services by using advanced web-oriented applications either based on […]
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Austria named best healthcare system in the EU
Austria has the best healthcare service in the European Union, a survey by watchdog Health Consumer Powerhouse has found. The Euro Health Consumer Index is an annual ranking of national European healthcare systems across five areas that are key to the consumer: patients’ rights and information, waiting times for common treatments, care outcomes, the generosity […]
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