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16 January 2008

German doctors say no to centrally stored patient records

Recent reports about incidents of data loss in the British healthcare system have alarmed medical doctors in other European countries.
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8 January 2008

T-Systems boss says e-health based on integration

Achieveing connected, interopreable e-health systems in Europe, particularly in hospitals, will increasingly be based on the ability to successfully integrate
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8 January 2008

“Hospital information systems are not indispensable”

Hubert Haag says that with 12,000 European healthcare customers T-Systems is a vital player in European e-health, Philipp Grätzel reports.
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11 December 2007

Helios Hospitals to connect doctors via EPR

Helios hospital group is launching a Germany-wide electronic patient record project to allow electronic communication with referring doctors in private practices.
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21 November 2007

Medica 2007: smartcard lows and EPR highs

Although there was good news for medical smartcard projects at the trade fair Medica 2007 in Düsseldorf, doctors critical of
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30 October 2007

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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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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5 September 2007

Nurses go wireless in Essen

The nursing service at Essen University Hospital is to begin an ambitious wireless health IT project later in September that
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17 August 2007

German smartcard rollout brought forward

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