personal health records

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9 February 2009

IBM teams with Google to mobilise patient data

New software to enable data to be easily moved from remote personal monitoring devices into Google Health personal health records
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7 January 2009

US sets out privacy principles for EHRs

The US Department of Health and Human Services has published new privacy guidelines for electronic health records (EHRs), based on
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19 November 2008

Interoperable PHRs could save US $21bn a year

A US study has projected that personal health records have the potential to save the US healthcare system €16.3 billion
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6 August 2008

ICW says LifeSensor can handle 10,000 users

Simulated benchmark tests carried out on InterComponentWare’s LifeSensor personal health record (PHR) have shown that the system can handle 10,000
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20 May 2008

Google Health launched

Internet search giant Google yesterday unveiled Google Health, its online personal health record service.
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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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29 February 2008

DH seeks tougher sanctions for security breaches

The government is seeking an increase in penalties for NHS staff that breach the Data Protection Act. Health minister, Ben
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28 February 2008

The bigger picture at HIMSS

Jon Hoeksma visits the ever-expanding US healthcare IT show, HIMSS, where business intelligence and consumer-led e-health were big themes.
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24 January 2008

Two pharmacy PHR projects launched in Germany

Two new pilots are underway to offer pharmacy personal health records (PHRs) in Germany. Both are based on a PHR
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