Toumaz, the leading provider of ultra-low power wireless infrastructure for body monitoring solutions, has been named as a 'Cool Vendor' by leading analyst firm Gartner, Inc. The 'Cool Vendors in Healthcare Providers 2010' report profiles five vendors worldwide who, in Gartner's assessment, exemplify innovative and potentially transformative solutions for global healthcare providers.

IMS MAXIMS, suppliers of software to the healthcare sector in the UK and Ireland, and Total Asset Finance, a specialist lease/finance business based in Warrington Cheshire, have combined their operations under a new holding company, Daresbury Services Group (DSG) which holds 100% of both IMS MAXIMS and TAF, each of whom will continue to trade independently.

Tunstall Healthcare Group, the leading provider of telecare and telehealth solutions, is today launching icp integrated care platform™, its next generation suite of telehealth solutions at the Managing Long Term Conditions conference in Harrogate.

NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, one of the Department of Health's three national Whole System Demonstrator pilot sites, will continue to deliver telehealthcare services and make it available to more patients in the Cornwall region.

In today's challenging economic environment, technology start-ups can struggle to bring new ideas to market. In response, IBM (NYSE: IBM) opened its resources to these companies in a new initiative to help this next generation of entrepreneurs capture emerging business opportunities in fast-growing industries such as energy and utilities, health care, telecommunications and government.

To provide strong support for both the European Union Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) research initiative and the global "Physiome" community, the process to establish a European VPH Institute has now officially started.

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, and CollabNet®, the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (Agile ALM) in the Cloud, announced today that Agfa HealthCare has deployed CollabNet TeamForge™ to support more than 200 major software development projects around the globe.