Two of the UK's leading healthcare IT companies are to join forces following the announcement that Ascribe - a leading software and IT services provider to secondary care - is to join EMIS Group plc, owner of EMIS - the UK's leading provider of software to GPs. The move will bring together two leading companies working in adjacent but not overlapping markets - creating a powerful new force in healthcare IT able to offer a wide range of integrated clinical systems working across multiple care settings.

Tech-savvy consumers, young and old, are missing out on the help technology can give when caring for older, ill or disabled loved ones - a new poll highlights. The report, Potential for Change, shows that while over 7 in 10 UK adults routinely turn to technology for banking, shopping and communications, only 3 in 10 are embracing health and care technology to help care for older or disabled relatives.

FairWarning, Inc. the inventor, patent holder and world's leading supplier of privacy monitoring solutions for electronic health records announced record growth in the adoption and deployment of the company's solutions.

Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust (BSUH) in partnership with Stone Group, has completed the installation of a new electronic bed management system as part of improvements to ward efficiency and patient care throughout its six hospitals. The project involved the installation of around 70 Samsung Large Format Display (LFD) monitors with touch screen capability across all inpatient wards through the Trust's two sites in Brighton and Haywards Heath.

iPLATO Healthcare, a UK leader in cloud based mHealth and Analytics, has launched a new feature which allows patients to automatically cancel GP appointments via their mobile phone without intervention by reception staff at the practice. This new iPLATO feature - available for Enterprise and Pro users - will further reduce the practice workload related to appointment management and improve patient access to GP services.

The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) will provide its 21,000 members with electronic access to thousands of peer-reviewed medical and surgical journals and reference books. The RSM will be able to offer its members access to more than 540 journals, including The Lancet, and 1,060 books, including titles such as Gray's Anatomy and Netter's Anatomy, through Elsevier's ClinicalKey or via the RSM's online library catalogue.

InterComponentWare AG (ICW) has announced that its ICW Forms Solution for EMR 1.0 has achieved SAP certification as Mobile App. The SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC) has certified that ICW Forms Solution for EMR 1.0 integrates with SAP® EMR Unwired through SAP NetWeaver® Gateway.