E-health needs to scrap Trabant thinking
Germany’s leading health chief information officer has compared the adoption of e-health by many healthcare organisations to the Trabant and said Vokswagen thinking is needed.
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European Commission calls for investment
The European Commission has urged member state governments to take a strategic view of future healthcare needs and invest in ehealth technologies.
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epSOS project to extend to 2014
Coverage from World of Health IT 2010, Barcelona Smart Open Services for European Patients, which aims to enable a summary of a patient’s electronic medical record to be shared across European country borders, is likely to be extended. The €23m project, which is co-funded by the European Commission, was originally meant to be in place […]
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EC urges bigger thinking in eHealth
The European Commission has called for a change in the “mentality” that leads to thousands of small scale pilots being run in eHealth.
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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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EHTEL calls for local action
Coverage from World of Health IT 2010, Barcelona The European Health Telematics Association has called for more regional and local level approaches to eHealth across Europe. Speaking to E-Health Europe at the World of Health IT conference and exhibition in Barcelona, a spokesperson for the non profit organisation, said that eHealth needs to be done […]
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ISoft makes move on consumer healthcare
Coverage from World of Health IT 2010, Barcelona ISoft has formed a partnership with Switzerland-based telehealth device company Medic4all. The two companies are showcasing integrated telehealth products at the World of Health IT conference in Barcelona. These include a monitoring operations centre that manages patient data and a home care platform that allows healthcare professionals […]
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EU ministers sign eHealth declaration
Coverage from World of Health IT 2010, Barcelona European Union health ministers have signed a declaration that recognises the strategic value of eHealth and commits to greater collaboration across Europe. The declaration was signed at the high-level ministerial conference on eHealth in Barcelona, which is part of the World of Health IT conference being held […]
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e-Health Week 2010 announced
The World of Health IT (WoHIT) Conference and Exhibition and the ministerial event known as the High Level e-Health Conference will be jointly run next March in an initiative called e-Health Week 2010. The conference will be held at the Convention Centre CCIB in Barcelona from 15-18 March 2010 and is being organised by the […]
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European Commission allies with HIMSS
The European Commission has announced it will merge its annual high level ministerial e-health conference with an industry event run by America’s Healthcare Information and Management Society (HIMSS). The decision would appear to place HIMSS in pole position to dominate future European e-health exhibitions and strengthen its ambitions to grow into the leading professional body […]
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