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Concerned about increased risks to patient data under the country’s planned eGK EHR programme, Germany’s independent doctors’ association, the NAV Virchow Bundes, has called on the programme’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 … Continue reading
Primary care chiefs and opposition politicians have attacked claims that Germany’s national EHR programme, the eGK, will result in major benefits and cost savings. Manfred Klunk, primary care ICT director for Germany’s largest region, Bavaria, described the eGK as no more functional than the country’s existing health insurance card. Moreover, Klunk claims that the eGK … Continue reading
Gematik, the company project managing Germany’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 … Continue reading
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.
The technical managing director in charge of Germany’s electronic health record (EHR), Dirk Drees, has not had his contract renewed due to continuing difficulties in implementing the programme – Europe’s largest. Drees will leave Gematik, the company in charge of Germany eGK programme, when his contract expires at the end of 2008. There is speculation in Germany … Continue reading
Euro-HIT: European Health IT 