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2 March 2009

Finland builds on local foundations

Finland is on track to build a national electronic health record repository, which clinicians will be legally required to start
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25 February 2009

epSOS makes strong start

Europe’s flagship 12-nation electronic health record interoperability project, epSOS, has made a strong start with new countries now asking to
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23 February 2009

InterSystems Iberia wins computing prize

InterSystems Iberia, the Spanish arm of US health database and integration technology specialist InterSystems, has been awarded Spain’s national prize of
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20 February 2009

Momentum builds on telemedicine

The head of the European Commission’s ICT for Health unit says there is growing momentum behind telemedicine across the continent.
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19 February 2009

Commission not ‘Easter bunny’ on research

A meeting on benchmarking e-health developments has called for greater funding of large scale European e-health studies into use of
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17 February 2009

Wales to build Centre for NanoHealth

Wales is to become home to what is thought to be Europe’s first centre for NanoHealth, to be built at
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16 February 2009

EHI interview: Peter Neupert

Microsoft’s vice president for health strategy, recently spoke to the US Senate’s HELP committee. Last week, he spoke to EHI
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13 February 2009

Hospital uses Twitter for live surgery updates

Micro-blogging service Twitter has been used by US surgeons to provide real-time updates on a live robot-assisted surgical procedure.
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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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