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		<title>German doctors say no to central EHR database: USB solution suggested</title>
		<link>http://eurohit.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/doctors-demand-central-ehr-database-be-abandoned-patient-usb-solution-preferred/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Payne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Concerned about increased risks to patient data under the country&#8217;s planned eGK EHR programme, Germany&#8217;s independent doctors&#8217; association, the NAV Virchow Bundes, has called on the programme&#8217;s coordinator, Gematik, and vendors involved in the programme to drop plans to create a centralised patient data repository.
According to the association, Gematik and the German ministry for health is sticking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurohit.wordpress.com&blog=2304391&post=18&subd=eurohit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patients to view Norwegian EHR data logs</title>
		<link>http://eurohit.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/patients-to-view-norwegian-ehr-data-logs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Payne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norway's most modern hospital, St Olav's University Hospital in Trondheim, is opening the data logs of its EHR system to patients. This will allow them to see exactly who in the hospital has viewed their patient record.

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		<title>No Big Bang EHR for Denmark</title>
		<link>http://eurohit.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/no-big-bang-ehr-for-denmark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Payne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denmark is adopting a gradual approach to implementing EHR, based on regional programmes, according to the country's IT strategy for healthcare recently unveiled by the Danish Health Ministry and the five Danish Regions
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		<title>British MPs criticise Government approach to SMEs</title>
		<link>http://eurohit.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/british-mps-criticise-government-approach-to-smes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Payne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK House of Commons Trade and Industry Select Committee has attacked the UK Government&#8217;s procurement policy for excluding small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) and for late payments to firms.
It noted that Government had committed officially to &#8220;improve small business access to public sector procurement&#8221;. But the broad sweep of Government policy effectively discriminated against [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurohit.wordpress.com&blog=2304391&post=14&subd=eurohit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dutch clinicians attack fragmentation of child records</title>
		<link>http://eurohit.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/dutch-clinicians-attack-fragmentation-of-child-records/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Payne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doctors, nurses and welfare workers in The Netherlands have voiced concerns that the country&#8217;s new electronic child record (Elektronisch Kinddossier &#8211; EKD) does not provide a national or continuous record of care.
Both the AJN (Artsen Jeugdgezondheidszorg Nederland &#8211; Netherlands Association of Paediatric Doctors) and the V&#38;VN (Verpleegkundigen &#38; Verzorgenden Nederland &#8211; Netherlands Nursing and Welfare [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurohit.wordpress.com&blog=2304391&post=13&subd=eurohit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More money for Italian health technology</title>
		<link>http://eurohit.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/more-money-for-italian-health-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Payne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Italian Government has increased healthcare funding for 2008 by €3 billion, with new funds earmarked for healthcare modernisation and new technology. The increase continues the trend established with the 2007 health budget.
The Government has also abolished the €10 coupon charge for diagnostic tests and specialist consultations.
Amongst other major changes, the Government has increased funding for adult [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurohit.wordpress.com&blog=2304391&post=12&subd=eurohit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Board holds DMP funding before Gagneux report</title>
		<link>http://eurohit.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/board-holds-dmp-funding-before-gagneux-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Payne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The board overseeing the management of France&#8217;s DMP EHR programme has voted to keep funding at the same level next year while it awaits Michel Gagneux&#8217;s report into the future direction of the DMP. The meeting held December 19th voted to meet again in March 2008 to consider Gagneux&#8217;s recommendations and review future funding levels.
The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurohit.wordpress.com&blog=2304391&post=11&subd=eurohit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Experts pour cold water on eGK benefits</title>
		<link>http://eurohit.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/experts-pour-cold-water-on-egk-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Payne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Primary care chiefs and opposition politicians have attacked claims that Germany&#8217;s national EHR programme, the eGK, will result in major benefits and cost savings.
Manfred Klunk, primary care ICT director for Germany&#8217;s largest region, Bavaria, described the eGK as no more functional than the country&#8217;s existing health insurance card. Moreover, Klunk claims that the eGK programme [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurohit.wordpress.com&blog=2304391&post=10&subd=eurohit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gematik appoints Atos to synchronize eGK systems</title>
		<link>http://eurohit.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/gematik-appoints-atos-to-synchronize-egk-systems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Payne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gematik, the company project managing Germany&#8217;s eGK national EHR programme, has appointed French firm Atos Origin to run address resolution and synchronisation services across the national network. The contract award is for five years.
The contract is the second win linked to the eGK programme this year for Atos Origin. In July, the company won the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurohit.wordpress.com&blog=2304391&post=9&subd=eurohit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study: French doctors dislike patient control of data</title>
		<link>http://eurohit.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/study-french-doctors-dislike-patient-control-of-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Payne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[French doctors broadly welcome the country&#8217;s EHR initiative, the DMP, and agree with most of its features, a study by Ipsos for the GIP DMP &#8211; the body managing the programme &#8211; has found. But doctors object to the degree of control that the system gives patients in controlling clinician access to medical data, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurohit.wordpress.com&blog=2304391&post=8&subd=eurohit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Child murder fuels uptake of electronic records</title>
		<link>http://eurohit.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/child-murder-fuels-uptake-of-electronic-records/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Payne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The murder of a twelve year girl is accelerating the adoption of electronic child health and social records across the Netherlands.
The death of &#8220;Gessica&#8221; &#8211; known as the &#8220;Maas girl&#8221; after her body was discovered in the River Maas &#8211; has underlined the importance of the Netherlands&#8217; new child electronic records: the EKD. 
Police used the new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurohit.wordpress.com&blog=2304391&post=7&subd=eurohit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dutch GP EHR trial extended</title>
		<link>http://eurohit.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/dutch-gp-ehr-trial-extended/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Payne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the Netherlands&#8217; main trials for its primary care EHR has been extended by three months. The oversight panel for the primary care EHR trials in the Twente district has decided to extend the pilot by a further three months. The trial project will now end in February 2008. The decision was taken by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurohit.wordpress.com&blog=2304391&post=6&subd=eurohit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bavaria urges caution on eGK timetable</title>
		<link>http://eurohit.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/bavaria-urges-caution-on-egk-timetable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Payne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bavaria's Social Affairs Minister, Christa Stewens, has urged caution on introducing the eGK EHR system too quickly. The Federal Permanent Secretary for Health, Dr Klaus Theo Schroeder, has stated that he wants the eGK to be introduced by the end of Spring 2008. But Ms. Stewens says that pilot tests currently underway show that the eGK system is just not ready yet.

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		<title>Working group to revive French EHR programme</title>
		<link>http://eurohit.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/working-group-to-revive-french-ehr-programme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Payne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bachelot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[French health minister Roselyne Bachelot has established a high level working group to &#8220;revive&#8221; the Dossier Médical Personnel (DMP), France&#8217;s national electronic health records programme. Bachelot says she wants to resuscitate the programme, &#8220;not start again from scratch&#8221;.
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		<title>eGK problems claims Drees scalp</title>
		<link>http://eurohit.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/egk-problems-claims-drees-scalp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Payne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The technical managing director in charge of Germany&#8217;s electronic health record (EHR), Dirk Drees, has not had his contract renewed due to continuing difficulties in implementing the programme &#8211; Europe&#8217;s largest. Drees will leave Gematik, the company in charge of Germany eGK programme, when his contract expires at the end of 2008.
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