New research has revealed that - despite advances in electronic communication - GP surgeries are still being swamped by paper, with nearly 200 million clinical documents* sent in the post to UK practices each year at an estimated cost of £1 per letter.**

Under the tagline "The Future of Healthcare" Siemens Healthcare is running a competition for students from around the world. The contest focuses on the question of how technological progress and changes in society will affect today's global healthcare systems.

More and more doctors want to know why the technology used as a matter of course at home isn't available at the workplace as well. Tieto has taken this on board and has developed an "App" to provide mobile access to HIS (Hospital Information System).

At Medica 2011, InterComponentWare AG (ICW) will introduce a new version of its ICW Master Patient Index (ICW MPI), tailored specifically towards hospital needs.

assono, IT expert company from Germany, a continuously supporter of the Global E-Health Forum, has presented again its potential, solutions, and projects in the frames of Global E-Health Forum in Hamburg.

Since 2005, Philips Research and a growing amount (35) of other industrial partners combine their innovation power at Holst Centre, an open-innovation initiative by imec (B) and TNO (NL), to take technology in the areas of wireless sensors and flexible electronics to the next level.

The Swedish company Giraff Technologies and the EU AAL ExCITE-project received top honors at the annual AAL Forum, being named the "most promising" innovation of the year out of nearly 100 products and projects. The three criteria for the award were innovation, potential to improve the quality of life for older adults and market potential.