Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust is the latest NHS trust to place an order with iSOFT, a CSC company, for its e-prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) solution to improve medicines management and reduce the risk of drug-related mistakes.

The winners of the inaugural Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards have been announced at a ceremony attended by the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes and Vodafone Group Chief Executive Vittorio Colao.

Health Minister Edwin Poots has launched a remote telemonitoring healthcare system which will be used by up to 20,000 patients across Northern Ireland. The £18m system will help to improve health outcomes for patients with long-term conditions through better engagement with clinicians and enhanced self-management.

Carefx, a leading provider of interoperable workflow solutions, announced that Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has selected the Carefx solution suite to provide clinicians with access to patient data from multiple core systems through a single, integrated view.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced new analytics software and services designed to help companies develop and more effectively use intellectual property, scientific literature and molecular data to advance their business. By providing rapid access to worldwide patent data, researchers can tap into one of the most extensive sets of data available to explore new innovations.

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), through its healthcare IT business, and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq "MSFT") announced plans to create a joint venture aimed at helping healthcare organizations and professionals use real-time, systemwide intelligence to improve healthcare quality and the patient experience.

IHE-Europe, a non-profit association dedicated to interoperability in health information and communication technology (HICT), announced the creation of IHE-Services to offer professional interoperability testing services for health systems and projects.