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20 February 2008

Gemalto to deliver Slovenia’s smartcard upgrade

Slovenia has chosen Gemalto to help develop its upgrade to their electronic health cards for Slovenian citizens. Gemalto will provide
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30 January 2008

National media attention for anti-smartcard group

In Germany this week doctors and civil rights activists joined forces to organise a boycott of the German smartcard programme,
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18 January 2008

SCM card terminal MKT+ certified

SCM Microsystems has received certification for its eHealth100 health card terminal to be used as an MKT+ terminal (multi-functional terminal)
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8 January 2008

“Hospital information systems are not indispensable”

Hubert Haag says that with 12,000 European healthcare customers T-Systems is a vital player in European e-health, Philipp Grätzel reports.
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28 December 2007

Two hospital search engines launched

Two major German health insurance companies have presented new hospital search engines for citizens in order to increase transparency of
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19 December 2007

US group calls for national patient IDs

America’s National Alliance for Health Information Technology has called for a national voluntary system of unique patient identification numbers to
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12 December 2007

German industry group publishes telemedicine standards

Leading German electronic association the VDE has published a new set of standards for telemedicine to spur the development of
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27 November 2007

French patients able to update insurance smartcards

Smartcard security specialists Xiring and mobile phone operator SFR are working together to deploy the largest ‘Machine to Machine’ network
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22 November 2007

Major trial of PHRs starts in Germany

Germany’s largest health insurance fund, Barmer, is working with InterComponentWare AG (ICW) on a three year research study looking at
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21 November 2007

Medica 2007: smartcard lows and EPR highs

Although there was good news for medical smartcard projects at the trade fair Medica 2007 in Düsseldorf, doctors critical of
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