Germany

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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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11 December 2007

Helios Hospitals to connect doctors via EPR

Helios hospital group is launching a Germany-wide electronic patient record project to allow electronic communication with referring doctors in private practices.
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20 November 2007

Industry agrees standardised interface for EPRs

After one year of negotiations – faster than expected – more than 30 health IT companies have agreed on a
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19 November 2007

Danish RTX make telemonitoring user friendly

German telemonitoring service provider Vitaphone has announced a joint venture with Denmark based RTX Healthcare, at Medica in Düsseldorf
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18 October 2007

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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17 October 2007

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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11 October 2007

NETC@RDS moves to phase two deployment

The initial deployment of phase two the NETC@RDS project, an online service for the European Health Insurance Card (eEHIC) has
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3 October 2007

Austria named best healthcare system in the EU

Austria has the best healthcare service in the European Union, a survey by watchdog Health Consumer Powerhouse has found. The
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14 September 2007

Evolution, not revolution

Jens Naumann, head of the German industrial association of health IT companies, talks to Philipp Gratzel about the forthcoming roll
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10 September 2007

Bulgaria begins electronic health cards pilot

The Bulgarian Ministry of Health and the National Health Insurance Fund have begun piloting the issuing of electronic health cards,
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