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9 April 2008

Berlin University opens telemedicine centre

The Charité University Hospital, part of Berlin University, has opened a centre for cardiovascular telemedicine.
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7 April 2008

Research highlights pitfalls in Catalan e-health

Researchers at the Open University of Catalonia have released a new study which describes aspects of Catalan’s integrated electronic patient
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3 April 2008

Northern Ireland launches Emergency Care Record

Northern Ireland health minister, Michael McGimpsey, has launched the Northern Ireland Emergency Care Record – a new emergency care project
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31 March 2008

Dublin’s St James’s links speech and radiology

Ireland’s largest hospital, St James’s Hospital in Dublin, is using Nuance Communication’s PowerScribe dictaphone system to automate the creation of
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31 March 2008

Europe-wide project to detect drug reactions

A new European-wide initiative, the ALERT project, has received €5m EU funding to detect adverse drug reactions (ADRs) using real-time
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20 March 2008

German government unveils smartcard costs

The German ministry of health has issued details on recent and estimated future costs of the healthcare smartcard project in
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19 March 2008

VDE paper supports telemonitoring for diabetics

German industry association, VDE, has published a paper on telemonitoring for diabetic patients. The paper urges politicians to make greater
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19 March 2008

ePractice launches eHealth Procurers Forum

The European Commission’s ePractice website has launched a new eHealth Procurers Forum where practitioners involved in e-health procurement can meet
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17 March 2008

ICW looks to integrate PHRs with iPhone

InterComponentWare (ICW) has announced plans to integrate the Apple iPhone and other smartphones with the Life Sensor personal health record
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12 March 2008

NHS boss says NPfIT ‘was not in right place’

NHS chief executive David Nicholson says the NHS IT programme had become too centralised to support the move to a
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