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Smartphone patient monitoring showcased

Finland’s, eHIT, a specialist in healthcare software, has developed a new patient sensor and smartphone-based monitoring system, to deliver round-the-clock
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Austria

Austria's healthcare system is the second largest amongst the German speaking countries, employing 210,000 doctors and nurses across private practices
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German insurance firms merge IT departments

In January 2008 over 200 German health insurance companies will combine their IT departments to form one company. This is
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Yorkshire and Humber SHA plan TPP-based EPR

Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority has adopted a new IM&T strategy that explicitly plans for the possible non-delivery of
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Birmingham’s City hospital goes live with iPM

Birmingham’s City Hospital, part of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with iSoft’s iPM patient administration
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CfH spent £3.4m on PR in two years

Connecting for Health has spent almost £3.4m on PR and Communications since 1 April 2005, health minister Ben Bradshaw has
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GPs voice key concerns over IT

GPs believe national IT projects are getting priority over their day-to-day IT needs and say problems with servers and desktops
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EMIS to roll out patient access to records

EMIS is set to roll out patient access to records across all of its practices. The primary care IT supplier,
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Amsterdam to launch STD clinic online

The Amsterdam Health Service will launch a web based out patient clinic offering anonymous screening to those at risk of
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RCN offers distance learning with Open University

The Royal College of Nursing has partnered with the Open University to provide distance learning courses, aiming to create development
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