e-Health Study receives EU tenders

A tender has been filled up by the the European Commission for a study, for benchmarking e-health deployments internationally.

EU internet access reaches 60 per cent

60% of households across the EU had internet access in 2008, according to a survey. Across the 27 countries within the EU, household internet access ranges from 25% in Bulgaria to 86% in the Netherlands.

NEWS REVIEW – WORLD

[This article was published in the October 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Medical data breach insurance, euHeart Project, bird flu detection machine, Version 3 of HL 7 are some of the stories reported in the World News section of eHealth.

Version 3 of HL7 released

Developer of global healthcare standards, Health Level Seven, has announced the release of Version 3 Normative Edition 2008, a globally-defined suite of specifications based on HL7