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28 November 2007

German hospitals to exchange patient data

Staff at Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany, and neighbouring hospitals will soon routinely exchange comprehensive patient data across sites using a
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28 November 2007

New CEO of SNOMED CT appointed

The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO), owners of the SNOMED CT terminology, has announced that Jennifer Zelmer will
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27 November 2007

Australia’s e-health chief to depart

The head of Australia’s National E-Health Transition Authority is set to depart after her resignation as director-general of Queensland Health.
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27 November 2007

French patients able to update insurance smartcards

Smartcard security specialists Xiring and mobile phone operator SFR are working together to deploy the largest ‘Machine to Machine’ network
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26 November 2007

Cisco looks ahead to ‘virtual healthcare’

Network technology and services giant Cisco has a ‘vision’ of the services and capabilities required to make e-health a reality,
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23 November 2007

Use IT more to promote safety, says WHO

The World Health Organisation has called on health bodies to use IT more for data collection in healthcare settings to
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22 November 2007

Major trial of PHRs starts in Germany

Germany’s largest health insurance fund, Barmer, is working with InterComponentWare AG (ICW) on a three year research study looking at
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21 November 2007

Medica 2007: smartcard lows and EPR highs

Although there was good news for medical smartcard projects at the trade fair Medica 2007 in Düsseldorf, doctors critical of
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20 November 2007

Industry agrees standardised interface for EPRs

After one year of negotiations – faster than expected – more than 30 health IT companies have agreed on a
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19 November 2007

Danish software extracts records digitally

Denmark’s largest hospital, Odense University Hospital, has implemented OnBase, Hyland Software’s suite of enterprise content management (ECM) software applications. The
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