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23 August 2007

Scotland completes digital retinopathy roll-out

NHS Scotland has completed the national roll–out of its diabetes digital retinopathy screening service, delivered using web-based e-health technology from
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23 August 2007

IMIA and WHO to ‘revitalise relationships’

Reporting from Medinfo in Brisbane, Australia, Neil Versel, interviews the World Health Organisation's e-health co-ordinator.
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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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20 August 2007

Three Scottish health boards sign PACS deals

Martin Egan signs the Access Agreement with Michael Jackman. Three Scottish health boards have signed access agreements with Carestream Health
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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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16 August 2007

Robotic future of patient care

As technology advances, robotics is the new revolutionary in healthcare. Kevin Fickenscher, MD and chief medical officer at Perot Systems
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14 August 2007

Altnagelvin hospital system crashes

Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, Northern Ireland was left unable to make bookings for 48 hours last week due to ‘a
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8 August 2007

Ireland to invest Euros 500m in e-health

The Irish Government will commit almost half a billion Euros of investment to e-health when it publishes its National Development
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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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1 August 2007

RFID on the frontline

Using RFID to track high value medical equipment can save time and money, argues, Cisco's Terry Espiner.
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