Philips Shows Innovative Ways to Finance and Manage Medical Technology at ECR 2008
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today highlighted its leadership in the financing and management of medical technology solutions at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna. Eric-Jan Rutten, General Manager of the company's Professional Healthcare Solutions division in EMEA, used the congress's hospital management symposium as a platform to argue that change in the way medical technology is provided to hospitals is essential to improve patient care whilst managing costs. 
The keynote speech describing in details the Google Health initiative by Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Google Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer, at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition has been recently made available at the Google's official YouTube channel. 
System C Healthcare has launched a new consultancy service aimed at helping healthcare organisations meet the challenges posed by the government's reform agenda. Called Perigon Consulting, its focus is on improving services to patients through innovative clinical practice and associated business efficiencies. 
Tunstall Group, the market leading provider of telecare and telehealth solutions, has undertaken an extensive strategic review of its business, and has found an excellent new partner in Charterhouse Capital Partners, further strengthening the Group's future growth plans. 
At this year's edition of CeBIT, Atos Origin will participate as gold sponsor at the French-German ICT summit on March 4th. Atos Worldline will present its upgraded card management system for processing the German electronic health card at the 1st edition of the international TeleHealth convention dedicated to the eHealth sector. 
Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MS-HUG) and Microsoft Corp. announced the winners of the 11th annual MS-HUG Healthcare Innovation Awards 2008. For more than a decade, the honors have been awarded to healthcare organizations, software vendors and system integrators that have demonstrated significant advancements, innovation and success using Microsoft technology in the healthcare industry, ultimately helping to improve health around the world. 
Microsoft Corp. bolstered its commitment to improving people's health through software innovation with the announcement of the Microsoft HealthVault Be Well Fund and request for proposals. The $3 million initiative is designed to empower providers with targeted funding to stimulate the research and development of online tools that improve health.