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7 January 2009

Germany’s e-health smartcard scaled back

Key clinical components of Germany’s flagship national e-health smartcard programme look set to be dropped or delayed because of problems
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27 November 2008

Fujitsu Siemens launches health tablet PC

Fujitsu Siemens computers has launched the ESPRIMO MA, a mobile tablet PC for the health sector.
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25 November 2008

Medica: Crisis? What crisis?

Is the health industry blind to economic reality and guilty of wishful thinking? Philipp Grätzel reports from Medica.
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24 November 2008

CfH condemns smartcard sharing

One in six GPs claim that NHS staff in their area have shared smartcards, according to a survey by doctors’
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29 October 2008

Gematik to evaluate USB sticks for patient records

The German national health IT body has agreed to evaluate USB sticks as a means of storing and carrying electronic
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26 September 2008

Dutch EPR rollout on track

The Dutch national electronic patient record project is progressing slowly, but steadily. Sixty five doctors have been connected to the
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23 September 2008

Gematik approves first smartcard reader

The security specialist Hypercom is the first company to receive an approval for its smartcard reader by the German health
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17 September 2008

Doctors and pharmacists join smartcard critics

With its rollout coming closer, critics of the German smartcard project are once again becoming louder. Three regional political representative
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17 July 2008

Gieseke and Devrient wins smartcard contract

Electronic Healthcare Card Munich-based identity technology specialist Giesecke & Devrient has won a contract from the German health insurer Kaufmännische
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18 June 2008

German medication specialists back decision support

Two leading members of the medication commission of the German National Chamber of Doctors have urged German hospitals to implement
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