Hospitals Granted Permission to Pilot International Patient Summary (IPS) Implementation
IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) has officially greenlit the implementation of the International Patient Summary (IPS) for pilot testing in hospitals. This significant development enables...
The number of people over 65 is increasing. They need help in hospitals, residential facilities, and their own homes. But due to staffing shortages, not...
Germany unveils a new strategy to “bring healthcare into the 21st century”
The German Federal Ministry of Health presented an ambitious "Digitization strategy for healthcare and nursing care. DIGITAL TOGETHER". It aims to introduce an electronic patient...
Does Prevention Justify Total Control? Data And Ethics During Health Emergencies
Lockdowns, contact tracing, obligatory testing, monitoring of people in quarantine, and COVID certificates – in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, national governments took policy decisions...
Digital health at a glance in 29 European countries
The Ministerial Delegation for Digital Health of the French Ministry of Solidarity and Health presented an overview of Digital Health in Europe, focusing on ethics...
Can Technology Still Save India’s Collapsing Healthcare System?
Low government spending on healthcare (1,28% of the country’s GDP), poor infrastructure, inequalities in access to medical services, high out-of-pocket expenditures, shortages of health professionals,...
Components of digitalization: evidence, knowledge and technology
The Norwegian Centre for E-health Research (NSE) has an ambitious goal: To accelerate the development and implementation of policy on eHealth. But how to transform...
Digital Health’s New Mission Is To Ensure Healthcare For All
The digitalization of healthcare must go far beyond the fascination with new technologies and instead become a core strategy for strengthening health systems around the...
Read These 3 Books To Get Ready For The Future Of Healthcare
Disruptive technologies in healthcare are advancing very quickly. If you want to explore what digital health is about and how medicine is changing, don’t miss...
Finland: Digitalization Of Health Care Leads To Patient Empowerment
Finland ranks among the three strongest health technology economies in the world. It’s also a country where digitalization path the way to the future of...
“The digital transformation of health and care will improve the lives of all Europeans”
Giving access to personal health data everywhere in Europe. Joining big data for genomic research and for detecting outbreaks of infectious diseases. Funding high-level digital...
How World Health Organisation wants to strengthen national health systems with digital health? How digital health can tackle challenges in public health? We talk with...
Technologies and innovations are transforming healthcare with an enormous speed. We often hear and read, that digital health innovations are disrupting medicine, reforming the conservative...