German doctors say no to centrally stored patient records
Recent reports about incidents of data loss in the British healthcare system have alarmed medical doctors in other European countries.
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T-Systems boss says e-health based on integration
Achieveing connected, interopreable e-health systems in Europe, particularly in hospitals, will increasingly be based on the ability to successfully integrate existing systems and data, says the head of one of Europe’s most successful e-health suppliers. In an exclusive interview in-depth interview with E-Health Europe, Hubert Haag, head of the healthcare dvision of T-Systems – the […]
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“Hospital information systems are not indispensable”
Hubert Haag says that with 12,000 European healthcare customers T-Systems is a vital player in European e-health, Philipp Grätzel reports.
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Helios Hospitals to connect doctors via EPR
Helios hospital group is launching a Germany-wide electronic patient record project to allow electronic communication with referring doctors in private practices. The system is running in two regions already, and a wider roll out to most of the 58 Helios hospitals is in place for next year. Technically, the system is a web service enabling doctors […]
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Medica 2007: smartcard lows and EPR highs
Although there was good news for medical smartcard projects at the trade fair Medica 2007 in Düsseldorf, doctors critical of IT developments managed to attract more media attention than ever. But it was not all about cards: vendors of electronic patient records have turned surprisingly optimistic too. And there was a real rising star: the […]
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SAP to start integrated care pilots later this year
Bernard Thibaut, head of the health-related software business at SAP Germany, tells Philipp Grätzel about the firm’s e-health future.
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Evolution, not revolution
Jens Naumann, head of the German industrial association of health IT companies, talks to Philipp Gratzel about the forthcoming roll out of electronic health cards.
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Health insurers offer smartcard access to websites
The biggest IT organisation of German health insurance companies, ISKV, has begun to offer a smartcard-based access solution to the websites of insurance companies. Patients can use the smartcards to access the insurance companies’ website to securely access services such as medical advice, together with accessing financial details of treatments received. The solution is presented […]
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Nurses go wireless in Essen
The nursing service at Essen University Hospital is to begin an ambitious wireless health IT project later in September that will result in it becoming one of the first fully wireless hospitals in Germany. The wireless system will be introduced to enable nurses and doctors at the hospital to use tablet PCs running electronic nursing […]
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German smartcard rollout brought forward
In a surprise move, the German health IT agency, Gematik, has accelerated the schedule of the German national smartcard project to April 2008.
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