patients

23 July 2008

Swiss Red Cross use Imprivata single sign-on

The Swiss Red Cross (SRC) has selected Imprivata’s OneSign single sign-on platform to provide secure, compliant access to confidential data

17 July 2008

Nine in ten patients satisfied with GP access

Nearly nine in ten patients are satisfied with their ability to get through to their GP practice on the telephone,

16 July 2008

German insurer launches glaucoma telemedicine

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

15 July 2008

New website lets patients rate doctors

Dr Neil Bacon founder of www.iWantGreatCare.org A website has been launched that allows patients to rate individual GPs and hospital

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

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.

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

9 July 2008

Darzi’s report for the digital generation

The final report of the Next Stage Review of the English NHS sees technology-driven change as one of the challenges

9 July 2008

Europe aims for interoperable EHRs by 2015

The European Commission has published new draft of interoperability guidelines setting out a roadmap to achieve interoperable electronic health records

8 July 2008