Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced that it has joined Gilde Healthcare III - a new venture capital fund focusing on innovative early and growth stage healthcare technology companies in Europe and the USA that are active in developing and commercializing new patient-centric healthcare solutions, medical technologies and therapeutics.

CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced that Denmark's National Board of Health will go live this summer with its adverse incident reporting solution. This project follows a successful EU tender last autumn to provide the National Board of Health with a web-based solution to allow patients, citizens and healthcare professionals to report adverse incidents in any part of the Danish health system.

The two-year telehealth framework agreement has been awarded by Buying Solutions, the national procurement partner for UK public services and part of the Efficiency and Reform Group within the Cabinet Office.

Healthcare data storage expert Tony Cotterill has called secure data management the "missing link" to improving patient care in the 21st century. Cotterill's comments follow in the wake of research carried out by GS1 UK and Hospital Dr which discovered that half of doctors expect Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) to improve patient care by providing verifiable, consistent and complete data to support verbal handovers between medical staff.

According to a recent (leaked) report, a cash crisis at South London Healthcare Trust left patients lying on the operating table before doctors' realised vital equipment had not been ordered.

The Ministry of Health of the Spanish region of Murcia has placed an order worth 132 million Euros to Siemens Healthcare for medical technology, service and financing.

Sandwell Primary Care Trust will soon introduce text messaging as an innovative and practical means of reminding parents of children under the age 5 to attend immunisation clinics.