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24 April 2008

Gibraltar launches electronic transcription application

The Gibraltar Health Authority (GHA) has launched a new prescription transcribing and dispensing application, incorporating First DataBank Europe’s (FDBE) Multilex
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23 April 2008

Mobile monitoring for Barmer customers

Barmer Ersatzkasse, Germany’s biggest health insurance company, has begun to offer its 7m customers mobile phone based fitness monitoring. The
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15 April 2008

Markische Kliniken hospitals implement Orbis

The Märkische Kliniken hospital group, based in southern Germany, says it has integrated medical, nursing and administrative IT processes following
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11 April 2008

Atos Origin signs 5 year deal on German health card

Atos Origin has signed a new five-year contract with German health IT agency Gesellschaft für Telematikanwendungen der Gesundheitskarte mbH (gematik)
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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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26 March 2008

Finland awards national patient archive contract

The Social Insurance Institution of Finland (KELA) has selected EMC to build a new centralised national patient record archive to
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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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3 March 2008

Berlin health conference will focus on IT

Next week sees hundreds of senior health officials from across Europe congregate in Berlin, Germany, for the 4th Annual World
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28 February 2008

Insurance companies to pay doctors for smartcards

After a year of negotiations, German health insurance companies have agreed to pay doctors for the smartcard readers and software
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