IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists have created a one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on an innovative silicon chip, that requires less sample volume, is significantly faster, portable, easy to use, and can test for many diseases, including one of world's leading causes of death, cardiovascular disease.

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) announced UK availability of the Intel® Reader, a mobile handheld device designed to increase independence for people who have trouble reading standard print. In the UK, there are an estimated six million people with dyslexia or other specific learning difficulties and two million people with visual impairments.

At this year's TSA National Telecare and Telehealth Conference, Tunstall Healthcare is launching its range of next-generation, digital-ready telecare solutions, designed to give both service users and care providers more choice and flexibility.

CSC (NYSE: CSC) has announced that its first deployment of Lorenzo Regional Care Release 1.9 (Care Management) went live on 3rd November 2009. The system was delivered under the NHS National Programme for IT, at NHS Bury. Hundreds of clinical and administrative staff across community services at Bury are now using the system to manage their administrative tasks including booking appointments, recording contacts and managing case notes.

Home Telehealth Limited (HTL), the premier UK provider of telehealth solutions and disease management services; and winner of the prestigious 'NHS Innovations Partnership with the NHS Award 2009' is once again in demand for its innovative nurse-led Telehealth Care Centre clinical managed services; this time from China.

Nuance Communications, Inc., a leading supplier of speech solutions, introduces version 7 of its speech recognition platform SpeechMagic and version 2.0 of SpeechMagic Solution Builder, a clinical documentation application for German-speaking countries, Finland and Spain. Nuance made the announcement during its first European healthcare partner meeting in Vienna (November 12-13, 2009).

Rudolfstiftung Hospital in Vienna, one of five main hospitals of the Vienna Hospital Association, has installed a second CARESTREAM DRX-1 System following a successful trial during the Summer of 2009. The trial was initiated as a result of the hospital modernising its facilities across three X-ray rooms in a move to meet the required high demand for images, both in terms of capacity and quality.