Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq "MSFT") unveiled the next generation of the Microsoft Surface experience featuring PixelSense technology, which gives LCD panels the power to see without the use of cameras. 
Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) has acquired substantially all of the assets of medSage Technologies LLC, a leading provider of patient interaction and management applications ("medSage Technologies"). 
GE (NYSE:GE) and Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) announced that Intel-GE Care Innovations LLC ("Care Innovations") is the name of their healthcare joint venture and that the company is operational. Care Innovations will develop technologies that support healthy, independent living at home and in senior housing communities. 
As the winter flu outbreak continues to spread, GPs now have a new resource to call on - a web portal that allows them to compare their own flu rates and vaccination uptake with national levels. 
Google has recently announced an application called Body Browser that allows to visualize complex 3D graphics of the human body. 
CompuGroup Medical, one of the leading eHealth companies, expanded its European position by acquiring the Belgian company Belgiedata BVBA. The company now has a presence in 24 countries. Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) has initiated a German public-private partnership that aims to advance the development of whole-body Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) systems and preclinical hybrid systems that combine MPI with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).