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20 February 2008

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

30 January 2008

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

18 January 2008

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

8 January 2008

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

28 December 2007

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

19 December 2007

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

12 December 2007

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

27 November 2007

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

22 November 2007

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

21 November 2007

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

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