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17 February 2009

Carestream gets KBV e-health card certification

Carestream Health has become one of the first healthcare IT companies to receive the KBV certificate, eGK-Release-0, as part of
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6 February 2009

Germany invests €125m in ambient care

The German national ministry of research has announced a major funding program for ambient assisted living.
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3 February 2009

VA fined €15m over lost laptop data

The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has agreed to pay €15m ($20m) to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by
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21 January 2009

German health minister praises regional EPR project

The city of Bottrop, North Rhine Westphalia, has launched a private electronic patient record project that utilises the new German
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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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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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20 November 2008

Germany’s GEK picks Atos for e-health card

German health insurer, Gmünder ErsatzKasse (GEK), has signed a five-year deal with Atos World line, to implement and operate the
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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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23 October 2008

Cerner wins contract for UAE national EPR

The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Health has awarded a €48 ($82m) contract to Cerner for a national electronic patient
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1 October 2008

Campaign 2008

Neil Versel looks at what Obama and McCain plan for healthcare IT in the US.
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