Swedish National Patient Overview halted
The National Patient Overview in Sweden, which provides an electronic summary of a patient’s record, has been halted following concerns about the amount of information patients are receiving about the project. The NPO first went live in Örebro County Council in June last year, following a four year deal with InterSystems and Tieto to provide […]
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Finnish Tieto acquires Intensium
Finnish health IT company, Tieto, has acquired the business operations of Intensium, including its benchmarking solution for healthcare providers and its management of healthcare workflow system. Intensium, which provides benchmarking services for healthcare service providers in Finland as a software as a service, allows providers to monitor the care process performance by assessing where there […]
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Swedish NPO ‘complete by 2012’
Coverage from World of Health IT 2010, Barcelona The National Patient Overview that is being rolled out across Sweden will be completed by spring 2012, according to one of the project leads. The NPO, which provides an electronic summary of a patient’s record including information on identity, attentions and alerts, diagnosis, care services and medications, […]
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Finnish digital doctors cut workloads
A new digital health service in the Finnish city of Espoo has been found to significantly reduce doctor’s workloads and help encourage patients to take more responsibility for their health.
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Summary record starts in Sweden
Örebro County Council has become the first part of Sweden to implement the national patient summary record. Sarah Bruce reports.
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Finland establishes industry e-health centre
The Finnish health and welfare sector has established a strategic expertise centre (T&H SHOK) focused on improving health and well-being using technology. The new centre will be led by a limited company jointly established by 29 Finnish firms, including IT services firm Tieto. The new centre is intended to improve the quality and efficiency of […]
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Orebro first with Swedish summary record
InterSystems has announced that the first stage of the Swedish National Patient Summary Project has been successfully deployed.
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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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German health IT fair splits
One of the two main German trade fairs for information technology in healthcare, the ITeG appeared to be in disarray at the end of last week. Trade fair organizer, Mesago, and the leading German industrial association for health-IT, VHitG, have decided to go separate ways after a difference of views about the future of […]
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