The 2010 Best Companies accreditation scheme has found 'outstanding' levels of employee engagement at System C. Workplace engagement has been identified as one of the key drivers behind sustained business performance.

Tunstall Response has received a top industry accreditation as a result of the high quality of telecare monitoring and support it provides thousands of older and vulnerable people in the UK.

Picis, the leading provider of information systems for the high-acuity areas of hospitals, and iSOFT, one of the world's biggest healthcare information technology (HIT) companies, have entered into a strategic alliance whereby iSOFT will distribute, implement and provide international support for selected solutions from the Picis CareSuite® family of high-acuity solutions, focusing initially on ICU and anesthesia in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Scandinavia, Australia and New Zealand.

As mobile devices become more advanced, European physicians are turning to them for a number of uses in their professional practice, according to a recent study by Manhattan Research. About half of online European physicians check email on their mobile devices while nearly four in ten search on a mobile web browser.

In a single Finnish hospital, Tieto's SMS-based Pre-Call Request reduced cancelled appointments by 20%. The reduction in administration was equivalent to the annual workload of nine nurses, enabling them to focus on delivering patient care.

Microsoft Corp. announced that its Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) 2009 has been selected by Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to transform its approach to hospital management and patient care.

COCIR welcomes the report of the European Commission's Exploratory Process on the Future of Medical Devices published on 28 January 2010. The Exploratory Process was coordinated by DG Enterprise and brought together all stakeholders, including COCIR, to identify the challenges facing the medical devices industry.