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21 July 2008

Wireless mannequin helps train health professionals

University of Portsmouth to use a portable mannequin which can be remote-controlled to talk, sweat, bleed, vomit and have a
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18 July 2008

International terminology toolset in development

The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) has launched a campaign to build an essential health terminology toolset to
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17 July 2008

GPs shape the future of health IT

In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Peter Short, one of the agency’s national clinical leads for GPs,
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17 July 2008

LISs to LIPs with the Health Informatics Review

The much anticipated Health Informatics Review only comes close to setting a new direction for the national programme. But it
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17 July 2008

Gieseke and Devrient wins smartcard contract

Electronic Healthcare Card Munich-based identity technology specialist Giesecke & Devrient has won a contract from the German health insurer Kaufmännische
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16 July 2008

Three standard types needed for e-health

A sub-group of the European Standardisation Organisations alliance has published a paper warning of gaps and overlaps in existing e-health
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16 July 2008

German insurer launches glaucoma telemedicine

Techniker Krankenkasse is to provide patients with a Glaucoma telemedicine monitoring programme as a mainstream service.
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15 July 2008

IMEC boosts wireless ECG patch

Flexible core of IMEC’s smart ECG patch. A new wireless patient monitoring ECG patch has been developed for cardiac monitoring
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14 July 2008

Intel gets approval for telecare device

Intel has received market clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for a new personal telehealth system.
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11 July 2008

Alcatel-Lucent launches LifeStat

French telecomms giant Alcatel-Lucent has announced the launch outside Canada of LifeStat Remote Monitoring and Health Management, a telemedicine service
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