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Denmark has provisionally handed over the Eastern Corridor Fibre Optic Network Extension Project to the Ministry of Communications, which will be managed by the National Information Technology Agency (NITA).

The 165 kilometres, which connects the Eastern Corridor Optic Fibre from Ho to Accra, was financed with a grant of € 3,795, 017 from the Danish Government.

"Scandinavia is considered a leader in e-health and design of health facilities," Gallagher said in a statement. She hoped to gain some pointers for the territory's e-health investment, which amounted to $90 million in this year's budget (passed early this morning).

The decision to introduce fingerprints in passports was made by the European Union as part of their war against terrorism, human trafficking and trade, illegal immigration and other transnational crimes.

The new biometric passport will allow Danish citizens to travel to countries which may demand this type of passport for entry in the future.

In Dänemark wird nach einer Studie die Informationstechnologie (IT) im weltweiten Vergleich am wirksamsten genutzt.

Deutschland hat sich in der Rangfolge der technologisch innovativsten Länder der Welt in diesem Jahr vom 17. auf den 16. Platz leicht verbessert. Das geht aus dem am Mittwoch vorgestellten Welttechnologiebericht 2006-2007 des Weltwirtschaftsforums (WEF) in Genf hervor. Auf Dänemark folgen Schweden, Singapur und Finnland auf den Plätzen zwei bis vier, während die USA als bisher Erstplazierte auf den 7. Rang abrutschten.

Die Suche nach einem Parkplatz in der Nähe des Arztes können sich Dänen manchmal sparen, ebenso Warten in der überfüllten Ordination. Diese Leichtigkeit des medizinischen Lebens wird via Internet realisiert: Sundhed.dk, ein Portal, welches als europäisches Vorzeigeprojekt für den Bereich E-Health gilt, bringt sämtliche wichtigen Dienste in Sachen Gesundheit unter ein elektronisches Dach. "Es wird damit zur gemeinsamen Anlaufstelle für Patienten, ihre Familien und Mitarbeiter von Institutionen", erläutert Eva Deutsch, Managerin im IBM Consulting Services. "Sie können sich informieren, kommunizieren und den Überblick behalten."

Während in Deutschland noch diskutiert wird, ist das dänische Gesundheitswesen fast komplett online gegangen. Über ein nationales Gesundheitsportal wird ein Großteil der medizinischen Kommunikation abgewickelt.

"Mittlerweile sind alle dänischen Krankenhäuser, 98 Prozent der Allgemeinärzte, alle Apotheken und über siebzig Prozent der Fachärzte beim dänischen Gesundheitsportal ‚Sundhed.dk‘ angemeldet", sagt der Arzt Dr. Klaus Juffernbruch von der E-Health-Sparte des IT-Unternehmens IBM. Etwa 80 Prozent aller Kommunikationsprozesse im Gesundheitswesen würden über das Portal abgewickelt, so Juffernbruch. Besonders beliebt seien Laborwerte, die zu 95 Prozent, und Entlassbriefe, die zu fast 100 Prozent über das Portal verschickt werden.

The authority also said it is repeating its competition to see which local council can get the most residents to register with the government's Digital Post universal e-mail service. This year, the competition runs from 09 September until 24 October. There will be three categories; the municipality with the largest percentage of its population registered for Digital Post; the one with the largest rise in registrations; and the one with the highest rate of registrations among people aged 15 to 24.

In order to be able to decipher the law and to seek the aid of a patient advisor in doing so, information from several different areas is needed so as to get an overview of rights and options as a patient in the healthcare system. The Danish eHealth portal has collected information from several entities in the form of an overview of essential patients' rights with links to detailed and relevant data. This new section has been well received by the portal users.

The Danish Digitisation Authority said nine out of ten Danes are satisfied with e-government portal Borger.dk. The rate of satisfaction has gone up by 5 percentage points from 2016 to 92 percent in 2017, it added. The authority said 93 percent consider the portal to be secure, too.

Nokia (NYSE:NOK) today announced that Excitor is introducing a Nokia Communicator based MobileCare solution for healthcare workers in the Municipality of Borkop in western region of Denmark. Using the Excitor developed software, the municipality has increased the efficiency of healthcare workers and improves elder care. The solution is built together with Zealand Care, one of the biggest providers of healthcare services in Denmark.

The Danish Digitisation Board said that in 2015, authorities sent 88.9 million electronic letters to members of the public and organisations. This was a rise from 47.9 million in 2014 and a 218 percent increase from 2013. It said that nine out of ten people in Denmark now have a Digital Post universal e-mail address.

Officials at Continua, the Beaverton, Ore.-based non-profit organization focused on end-to-end, plug-and-play connectivity for personal health devices and services, say Denmark will be using Continua's design guidelines to develop an "Action Plan for Telemedicine." That plan will establish reference architectures and national standards for health IT "in areas including the secure collection, transmission and storage of personal health data from patients’ homes, sharing medical documents and images, and the management of health records, medical appointments and other related information."