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Health security defeats RAF testers

A team of RAF security experts recently spent three days attempting to penetrate the wireless networking component of a managed
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Germany’s e-health smartcard scaled back

Key clinical components of Germany’s flagship national e-health smartcard programme look set to be dropped or delayed because of problems
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Medica: Crisis? What crisis?

Is the health industry blind to economic reality and guilty of wishful thinking? Philipp Grätzel reports from Medica.
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Siemens partners with Asklepios chain

Siemens is to make its hospital information system i.s.h.med part of the Asklepios Future Hospital Programme.
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iSoft announces new products at Medica

iSoft has launched two integrated care systems for the German market, based on the company’s new Lorenzo software.
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Germany’s GEK picks Atos for e-health card

German health insurer, Gmünder ErsatzKasse (GEK), has signed a five-year deal with Atos World line, to implement and operate the
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Germany to accredit online pharmacies

The German Ministry of Health is working on a new interactive labelling system to increase public confidence in online pharmacies.
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Nuance buys Philips Speech Recognition Systems

Philips has sold its Philips Speech Recognition Systems (PSRS) to US-based Nuance Communications for €66m ($96.1m).
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iSoft wins award for European labs strategy

ISoft Germany has been named a strategic leader in the European Laboratory Information Systems (LIS) market by analysts Frost &
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IHE publishes tendering recommendations

The German section of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) has published a paper advising hospital representatives on how to phrase
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