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19 September 2008

TEN4Health improves cross-border cooperation

Representatives of the European Commission and of the European Parliament have highlighted the TEN4Health project as an example for improving
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15 September 2008

EU consults on ICT 2020 research strategy

The European Commission has launched a public consultation into its ‘no-holds barred’ ICT research and innovation staretgy.
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25 August 2008

Philips to lead ‘euHeart’ project

Royal Philips Electronics is to lead a pan-European project to develop advanced computer modelling to enable highly personalised diagnosis and
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13 August 2008

Health bodies to get details of citizens’ email and internet use

Public bodies in the UK, including health authorities, could be given the power to access details of everyone’s personal text
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1 August 2008

European Institute of Technology board appointed

The European Commission has announced appointments to the governing body of the new European Institute of Technology (EIT), an initiative
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9 July 2008

Europe aims for interoperable EHRs by 2015

The European Commission has published new draft of interoperability guidelines setting out a roadmap to achieve interoperable electronic health records
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8 July 2008

Online pharmacies a ‘counterfeiting superhighway’

Over 60% of medicines purchased online are fake and could potentially be lethal for vulnerable patients according to EAASM.
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2 July 2008

Europe aims for borderless electronic health records

The European Commission has launched two major e-health initiatives aimed at achieving interoperable e-health systems across Europe
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4 June 2008

Europe-wide 112 emergency number gets website

The European Commission has stepped up efforts to push the use of the toll-free emergency number 112 in the EU
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28 April 2008

Eighty per cent of European GPs using e-records

A new Europe-wide survey on e-health has found that 87% of European GPs now use a computer, 80% of whom
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