eHealth Europa

The central German state of Hesse has become embroiled in a row over its decision to use software from American company Palantir to track the spread of coronavirus.

Spain's Basque Country health service has opened its citizens' health records to civil servants responsible for adjudicating disability benefits and detecting fraud.

France’s national Hospital Buyers’ Network (Resah) has awarded contracts for hospital electronic patient records for public hospitals nationwide to seven vendors. The contracts affect 850 hospitals across France, which are part of the public sector area hospital groupings, or GHTs. The contract, worth 25 million euros, is valid for four years.

German Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn is planning a new law to control when and what doctors can access on patients’ electronic health records (EHR).

German ehealth software firm CompuGroup Medical SE has acquired French primary care records specialist Epsilog for EUR 72 million. The acquisition expands CGM’s position in France and boosts its presence in the primary care software market.

A study by Germany’s Chaos Computer Club (CCC), weekly news magazine Der Spiegel, and broadcaster NDR has uncovered major security weaknesses in Germany’s EHR system, the eGK.

France has reached eight million electronic health records (EHR) records created, one year after the Government relaunched the country's EHR system after years of neglect. In the last year, France's EHR, the DMP, has jumped from two million users to eight million. The figure represents 20 percent of the target the Government has set itself to achieve by 2022.