Belfast company launches video based e-learning site for healthcare professionals in partnership with leading UK professional bodies. An innovative video based website that can help doctors, dentists and pharmacists polish up on their professional skills whenever and wherever they want has been launched by Northern Ireland based company, StreamOn.

Google Health project had a long way before it has been officially launched and hopefully the eHealth (Healthcare IT) sector will appreciate some useful lessons in announcing new products and learning from the "in advance" feedback. Nevertheless, one of the main lessons remains the power of the eHealth (Healthcare IT) blogosphere. If you still have some doubts, you are very welcome to explore the Google Health related articles applied to the Google Finance Pictures (Google stock).

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The keynote speech describing in details the Google Health initiative by Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Google Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer, at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition has been recently made available at the Google's official YouTube channel.

At this year's edition of CeBIT, Atos Origin will participate as gold sponsor at the French-German ICT summit on March 4th. Atos Worldline will present its upgraded card management system for processing the German electronic health card at the 1st edition of the international TeleHealth convention dedicated to the eHealth sector.

Posted by Alan Newberger, Engineering Manager (The Official Google Blog)
"Working as an engineer here on the health team, I've been excited to participate in building tools that will help me and others manage our personal health information more effectively. Many innovators in the healthcare industry have worked hard to make results of doctor visits, prescriptions, tests and procedures available digitally.

(CNN.com) Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader.

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the leader in digital security, announced that it will provide leading Health Sector specialists ZZZS and Cetis with a comprehensive solution for the latest generation of electronic health cards for Slovenian citizens. This new electronic health card is the first of its kind in Europe to feature a Java public key infrastructure (PKI) that will further secure the online health system via a digital signature for health professionals.