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In the frame of a direct service contract with the Consumers, Health and Food Executive Agency (Chafea) and funded by the EU Health Programme (2008-2013), Milieu Ltd. and time.lex have published a report entitled “Overview of the national laws on electronic health records in the EU Member States and their interaction with the provision of cross-border eHealth services”. This report evaluates the…

With only 7 months to go until the project’s end and all parts of the p-medicine architecture to be almost completed, p-medicine partner ecancer has now made some educational modules available on their website easily accessible via the section specifically dedicated to the p-medicine project. These modules feature the following tools implemented in the p-medicine architecture: ALGA-C…

Electronic Health Records (EHR) have been implemented widely over the past few years and they were meant to make life easier for doctors.  In fact, the administrative burden seems excessive and analysis seems difficult. Among the many articles found in the net, this one has recently raised the interest of p-medicine partner Biovista: “Electronic medical records fail in data analytics”.…

Since p-medicine has a strong focus on patient empowerment and communication between doctors and patients, we would like to raise awareness to an article published by the US Department of Health and Human Services on health literacy. Although the article has already been published in 2008, its subject remains as topical as ever. It stresses the importance of making health information easily…

p-medicine’s partner project in the VPH community “MyHealthAvatar” broadcasted a very interesting video of the latest version of its user interface on YouTube. It nicely demonstrates what is behind the project: an interface where users individually login to their personalized profile. This is called the 4D MyHealth Avatar, an interface to support the collection of, and access to, the complete…