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16 August 2007

Gematik approves RFID smartcard terminal

Smartcard technology provider, Assa Abloy Identification Technologies Group, has received approval from Gematik to participate in phase one of field
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3 August 2007

Rhineland-Palatina to offer PHR to newborns

The German federal state of Rhineland-Palatina is to offer all its newborn infants a smartcard-based personal health record (PHR) on
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13 July 2007

SCM gain Gematik accreditation

SCM Microsystems have announced that their eHealth 100 card terminal has received approval from Gematik to participate in phase one
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10 July 2007

Swiss agree compromise e-health strategy

After extensive political wrangling the Swiss Bundesrat – federal parliament – has endorsed a national e-health strategy, based on the
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15 February 2007

BMA chair says smart card policy ‘preposterous’

Connecting for Health’s policy of requiring doctors to repeatedly log-in with a smart card every time they use a computer
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30 January 2007

South Warwickshire authorises shared smartcard use

South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust has confirmed that its board has agreed that clinicians working in part of its
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13 September 2005

‘Unworkable’ smartcard rules to be re-written

NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has been forced to scrap the rules that practices must sign up to when they
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1 June 2004

Health insurance smart card scheme starts in EU

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