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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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3 January 2008

Four-fifths of doctors say electronic record insecure

Four-fifths of doctors are concerned that current plans for patients’ health records to be available from a central database –
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31 December 2007

BMJ Group buys exam site

The BMJ Group has bought OnExamination.com, a specialist website dealing with online exam preparation for doctors, medical students and other
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29 December 2007

York University to study BioBank data use

Social scientists at the University of York are to investigate public attitudes on how medical information on hundreds of thousands
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28 December 2007

Health organisations see rise in sick bill

Sick employees are costing health organisations a growing amount of money, according to a new online calculator. New figures from
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21 December 2007

German doctors switch on to Web 2.0

The US has led the adoption of Web 2.0 applications in healthcare, but German doctors are catching up, Philipp Grätzel
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20 December 2007

After the security storm

Data security experts believe the recent HMRC recent data disaster holds vital lessons for the health service, EHI editor Linda
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20 December 2007

EU tables proposals for health single market

The European Commission says EU citizens will be allowed to opt to receive healthcare in any member state, under new
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20 December 2007

Connected Santa comes to Great Ormond St.

Cisco made a few Christmas dreams come true at Great Ormond Street this week, bringing Santa Claus to the playroom.
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18 December 2007

2008: the year telecare grows up?

A large evaluation of assistive technologies across health and social care begins next year, Fiona Barr reports.
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