personal health records

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20 November 2007

Industry agrees standardised interface for EPRs

After one year of negotiations – faster than expected – more than 30 health IT companies have agreed on a
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19 October 2007

3G Doctor launches videophone consultations

Patients in the UK and Ireland can now access a self-created medical record on their mobile phone, and also have
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17 October 2007

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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14 September 2007

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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7 September 2007

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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22 August 2007

Patients need assurance on online health records

Patients need to be convinced that electronic personal health records (ePHRs) are safe and will benefit them, a group of
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21 August 2007

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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1 May 2007

Information Governance will be ongoing challenge

Connecting for Health have told the House of Commons Health Select Committee that addressing the  information governance challenge for shared
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5 March 2007

Personal health records high on HIMSS agenda

Personal health records, patient identification, interoperability and, of course, quality were high on the agenda at the annual Health Information
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9 February 2007

Patients can carry records on secure smartcard

Patients in London can now have their medical histories handy wherever they are, by uploading them onto a new USB
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