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9 March 2009

Cerner director is Obama’s health czar

US president Barack Obama has announced a former director of Cerner Corporation as director of the White House Office for
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4 March 2009

Hong Kong plans e-health records

Hong Kong’s Food and Health Bureau has set out healthcare reform plans that include proposals to develop a Hong Kong-wide
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4 March 2009

Med-e-Tel conference programme published

Med-e-Tel 2009 has published its conference programme, offering a range of speakers and presentations on global telemedicine and e-health. The
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3 March 2009

UK Lords welcomes cross-border health

The United Kingdom’s House of Lords has welcomed a proposal from the European Commission for a Directive on patients’ rights
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2 March 2009

Finland builds on local foundations

Finland is on track to build a national electronic health record repository, which clinicians will be legally required to start
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26 February 2009

Scottish NHS to invest €1.8m in e-health

Online scanning to allow remote diagnosis for island-based patients and Scotland’s biggest telehealth system are among a range of hi-tech
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24 February 2009

UN, Vodafone and Rockefeller launch mHealth Alliance

The Rockefeller Foundation, the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Foundation – three of the leading foundations involved in global
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23 February 2009

InterSystems Iberia wins computing prize

InterSystems Iberia, the Spanish arm of US health database and integration technology specialist InterSystems, has been awarded Spain’s national prize of
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20 February 2009

Momentum builds on telemedicine

The head of the European Commission’s ICT for Health unit says there is growing momentum behind telemedicine across the continent.
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17 February 2009

Wales to build Centre for NanoHealth

Wales is to become home to what is thought to be Europe’s first centre for NanoHealth, to be built at
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