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17 January 2008

Austrian hospitals get fingerprint biometrics

Austria’s biggest private hospital chain, the ‘Barmherzige Brüder’, is to begin using biometric fingerprinting to control access to IT systems.
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16 January 2008

German doctors say no to centrally stored patient records

Recent reports about incidents of data loss in the British healthcare system have alarmed medical doctors in other European countries.
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14 January 2008

Turkish doctors pilot new decision support system

European and Turkish doctors and technicians have developed a medical support system, Saphire, which can track patients’ real-time vital signs,
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10 January 2008

National IT system needed for medical recruitment

In his final report into the Modernising Medical Careers scheme, Sir John Tooke has labelled the online Medical Training Application
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10 January 2008

Video assistance devices launched for elderly

A new mobile video assistance technology programme funded by the European Commission’s eTEN programme and designed to aid elderly people
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9 January 2008

Robosoft showcase robot to help elderly

Robosoft’s Robuter prototype French robotic specialist Robosoft has demonstrated a prototype service robot which can help elderly and handicapped people
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8 January 2008

“Hospital information systems are not indispensable”

Hubert Haag says that with 12,000 European healthcare customers T-Systems is a vital player in European e-health, Philipp Grätzel reports.
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7 January 2008

Philips buys patient monitoring specialist Visicu

Royal Philips Electronics has agreed to acquire US-based clinical IT firm Visicu for around €290m, to expand its patient monitoring
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28 December 2007

Two hospital search engines launched

Two major German health insurance companies have presented new hospital search engines for citizens in order to increase transparency of
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19 December 2007

US group calls for national patient IDs

America’s National Alliance for Health Information Technology has called for a national voluntary system of unique patient identification numbers to
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