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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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SAP to start integrated care pilots later this year

Bernard Thibaut, head of the health-related software business at SAP Germany, tells Philipp Grätzel about the firm's e-health future.
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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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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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ICW add the Strüngmann brothers as shareholders

The Strüngmann brothers, founders of German drug manufacturer Hexal, have secured a 25% stake in eHealth specialists InterComponentWare. The deal
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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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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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Health insurers offer smartcard access to websites

The biggest IT organisation of German health insurance companies, ISKV, has begun to offer a smartcard-based access solution to the
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I am not a gambler

Frank Gotthardt, head of Gemany's fast-growing CompuGroup, tells E-Health Europe why he was not willing to buy iSoft at any
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Germany’s Barmer begins PHR trial

Barmer, Germany’s largest insurance company, is to begin a national evaluation of the effects personal health records (PHR) have on
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