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22 April 2009

Network resilience is a CERT

An EU agency has called for governments to set up a single Computer Emergency Response Team to improve the resilience
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16 April 2009

Audit Commission criticises data quality

A report published by the Audit Commission has concluded that data quality is still “often not what it needs to
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23 March 2009

Healthcare Commission calls for better early warning systems

The Healthcare Commission has said that early warning systems on patient safety incidents, which highlight key issues on quality of
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18 March 2009

Data blindness

The latest scandal to hit the NHS was obscured for years in rows about data. Its legacy should be far
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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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25 February 2009

epSOS makes strong start

Europe’s flagship 12-nation electronic health record interoperability project, epSOS, has made a strong start with new countries now asking to
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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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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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19 February 2009

Commission not ‘Easter bunny’ on research

A meeting on benchmarking e-health developments has called for greater funding of large scale European e-health studies into use of
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19 February 2009

Europe to double e-health research

Viviane Reding today announced that the European Commission will double funding for e-health research over the next two years. The
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