Tetanus (lockjaw) booster shot
Scratches and animal bites, even minor ones, tears to the cuticles or abrasions after a fall can become infected and lead to complications when pathogens enter the open wound. In the worst case, affe...
Colloquial instead of TARMED
The Swiss healthcare sector communicates in its own languages. One of these languages is called TARMED, a tariff system used in Switzerland to process outpatient medical services in medical practices...
Be careful when exchanging data
Healthcare data belongs to the patient and to no one else. Accordingly, care must be taken when storing and transmitting healthcare data. If patients or physicians use standard email applications or ...
evita provides easy access to your physician
Thousands of physicians, therapists and other service providers, as well as numerous hospitals and clinics, now have secure and easy access to the evita health record via the Health Info Net (HIN). T...
Who can access my healthcare data in an emergency?
Both chambers of Switzerland's federal Parliament have ruled that in future hospitals must use electronic health records for patients. This is an important decision for patients in Switzerland and g...
evita to prevent hospital stays
There are currently around 400,000 people in Switzerland who suffer from the chronic lung disease COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). COPD narrows the airways and can lead to severe respir...
New fitness sensors in evita
You can now start using the Fitbit fitness tracker and the sensors from iHealth in evita as we have expanded our list of additional functions for self-tracking. The list of sensors currently contain...
online patient registration
Patients of Inselspital, the Berne University Hospital, now have the possibility to conveniently complete the online patient registration form in evita via Internet. In this way, they save time goin...
Zurich Health Network provides patients with access to their personal healthcare data
Patients in the Zurich Health Network – a physicians' network of 36 practices – are now able to access selected documents from their own respective medical record. This is made possible by the elect...
Connectathon 2014
IHE has been organising the Connectathon in Europe for the past 14 years. In 2014 the choice of venue fell to Vienna, where vendors of more than 110 IT companies met. IHE is an initiative by healthc...