Gematik approves RFID smartcard terminal
Smartcard technology provider, Assa Abloy Identification Technologies Group, has received approval from Gematik to participate in phase one of field tests of the electronic health card programme in Germany. The company’s smartcard terminal, is claimed to be the only one that supports contact free radio frequency identification device (RFID) authentication, enabling health professionals to securely […]
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Rhineland-Palatina to offer PHR to newborns
The German federal state of Rhineland-Palatina is to offer all its newborn infants a smartcard-based personal health record (PHR) on the internet, in a project beginning 2008. The project is believed to be the first time that a web-based personal health record will be offered across an entire German region. Rhineland-Palatina is a mid-size federal […]
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SCM gain Gematik accreditation
SCM Microsystems have announced that their eHealth 100 card terminal has received approval from Gematik to participate in phase one of field tests of the electronic health card programme in Germany. The company claim to be the first to receive approval from Gematik for its new card terminal, which was developed specifically for the German […]
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Swiss agree compromise e-health strategy
After extensive political wrangling the Swiss Bundesrat – federal parliament – has endorsed a national e-health strategy, based on the implementation of electronic medical records by 2015. The adoption of the 58 page strategy was severely delayed due to protracted power struggles both between the federal and the regional governments and between regional governments and […]
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BMA chair says smart card policy ‘preposterous’
Connecting for Health’s policy of requiring doctors to repeatedly log-in with a smart card every time they use a computer system has been described as ‘preposterous’, by the chairman of the British Medical Association. Speaking exclusively to E-Health Insider Mr Johnson said: “The idea that we have to log in and out of each terminal […]
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South Warwickshire authorises shared smartcard use
South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust has confirmed that its board has agreed that clinicians working in part of its A&E Department can share smartcards to access patient records. The trust passed the policy after deciding that the lengthy log-in times, averaging 60-90 seconds, it takes staff to log-on to the hospital’s new patient administration […]
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‘Unworkable’ smartcard rules to be re-written
NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has been forced to scrap the rules that practices must sign up to when they receive a smartcard after it has emerged the policy is unworkable in general practice. Thousands of GPs may have already unwittingly agreed to the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) which includes requirements such as an agreement not […]
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Health insurance smart card scheme starts in EU
European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are being formally introduced today in 13 EU countries, including Belgium, Ireland, Spain, Estonia and Slovenia. The cards, which will eventually replace paper-based reciprocal health agreement forms such as the E111 and E128, contain a chip holding information that allows connection to a Health Insurance Data Server based in the […]
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