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. Article of the Month!
Open eHealth Foundation announced that Agfa HealthCare, eHealth specialist InterComponentWare (ICW), and Sun Microsystems, Inc. have joined as foundation members of the new Open eHealth Foundation, an Open Source initiative that is unique in the healthcare IT arena. The Open eHealth Foundation will provide software components under an Open Source license that will boost the open standards-based exchange of medical information.
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHI) announced a new structure for its Healthcare Informatics business to align its entire portfolio of clinical information solutions including patient monitoring, enterprise and clinical image management, anesthesia information, womens health information, and cardiology information systems.