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17 August 2007

In a surprise move, the German health IT agency, Gematik, has accelerated the schedule of the German national smartcard project

16 August 2007

Smartcard technology provider, Assa Abloy Identification Technologies Group, has received approval from Gematik to participate in phase one of field

8 August 2007

Norway’s Norsk Helse Telefon 24 (NHT24) a private provider of telephone triage services to Norway and other Scandinavian countries

3 August 2007

The German federal state of Rhineland-Palatina is to offer all its newborn infants a smartcard-based personal health record (PHR) on

2 August 2007

A new study of the German health IT market has sized the sector as being worth between Euros 1.1bn and

17 July 2007

The Southern German state of Bavaria has announced the setup of a new major hospital telemedicine network that aims to

13 July 2007

SCM Microsystems have announced that their eHealth 100 card terminal has received approval from Gematik to participate in phase one

10 July 2007

After extensive political wrangling the Swiss Bundesrat – federal parliament – has endorsed a national e-health strategy, based on the

1 June 2004

European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are being formally introduced today in 13 EU countries, including Belgium, Ireland, Spain, Estonia and

24 September 2003

A US physician liability insurance organisation, MedAmerica Mutual Risk Retention Group, is to offer its members a subsidy towards the

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