Denmark's Health Portal Reaches 5.3 Million Residents
In a first-of-its-kind project, health care data is made available to Denmark's 5.3 million residents.Denmark, like most countries, faced a serious health-related quandary: how to deliver efficient, effective and affordable care at a time of escalating costs and increased demand for services.
But unlike many others, Denmark harnessed IT to create a national health portal to help drive improvements in its health care system. This portal, called Sundhed.dk (sundhed means “health”), has increased communication among doctors and between doctors and patients, increased collaboration among health care providers, boosted efficiencies and even improved the quality of care.
The European E-health Web Research
Europeans are becoming more mobile and healthcare systems have to keep up. A research consortium is seeking to chart a road map for e-health interoperability that would eventually hook up the health information systems of Member States in a seamless web.Europeans are more mobile than ever before, moving not only around their own countries, but also across a largely borderless EU, in pursuit of leisure, education, career advancement or cultural enrichment. In addition, healthcare has changed significantly, with fewer people sticking to the same doctor, more patients visiting different specialists, health workers moving around more, as well as the emergence of e-health technologies which allow remote treatment and consultations.
Jamaica: Montego Bay: Telecoms Ministry to Establish More Community Access Points
Minister of Energy, Mining and Telecommunications, Clive Mullings, has announced that the Ministry will be placing emphasis on the establishment of community access points, as part of efforts to increase public access to information technology."We are going to have these community access points in shops, community centres and the like. This means that the man in the community can go to the shop, which has an electronic access point, and pay his bill so you do not have to have the actual hardware and software in your home," he stated.
Österreich: Vorarlberg führt im Online-Amtsverkehr
Das E-Government-Angebot des Landes Vorarlberg ist umfangreich: Auf der Homepage des Landes gibt es mittlerweile 107 Links zu Serviceleistungen, die vom Land vollständig elektronisch abgewickelt werden.Breite Themenpalette im "digitalen Landhaus"
Zum Vergleich: Platz 2 nimmt das Land Salzburg mit 63 Online-Verfahren ein.
Polizeigewerkschaft will Linux statt Windows in Berlin
Der Berliner Landesverband der Deutschen Polizeigewerkschaft (DPolG) hat sich für die Umrüstung der Rechner im Polizeieinsatz auf Open-Source-Betriebssysteme wie Linux ausgesprochen. Die Berliner Polizei müsse ohne Komplikationen arbeiten können und dies funktioniere derzeit mit dem Microsoft-Betriebssystem Windows nicht, beklagte der stellvertretende Berliner DPolG-Chef Helmut Sarwas laut Medien- und Agenturberichten am gestrigen Freitag in der Hauptstadt.