BMJ Group announced that the company has entered into an agreement with Cerner Corporation to integrate its evidence-based medical information with a range of solutions offered by Cerner in the UK and internationally. The first outcome of this collaboration will be the introduction of Order Entry sets for the hospital sector which brings together BMJ Group's evidence-based research database, BMJ Clinical Evidence, with Cerner Millennium(r) software.

Following the successful launch of the DocCheck® Faces network in Germany, DocCheck, the leading community for medical professionals in Europe, is now making its social networking package available in other countries. Within DocCheck® Faces, medical practitioners can put their profile on show, set up their own forums and exchange news with colleagues.

iSOFT Spain, an IBA Health Group company, has installed its hospital information solution at four health centres and one hospital in Portugal for private healthcare group ESSAUDE in a project worth €519,000. The system was installed in just four months. Running on a single database, the solution provides integrated patient management, clinical and financial applications across the five centres.

InferMed Ltd, the leading global provider of advanced decision support and data capture solutions for clinical research and practice, today announced that they have successfully completed the first year of study in conjunction with Siemens AG and researchers at the Technical University of Munich that enables an immediate, scalable method of automatically transferring data from an EMR to an EDC system, reducing lag time and greatly increasing efficiency.

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World Pharma News project is launching a Web 2.0 pharmaceutical news platform, named as well World Pharma News but with attached '.net' extension. Web 2.0 generally represents knowledge-oriented social-networking platforms focused first of all on collaborative approaches.

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced the release of its Avalon FM40 and FM50 fetal-maternal monitors. The Avalon FM40 and FM50 are the newest additions to the Avalon family of fetal-maternal products, which includes the Avalon Cordless Transducer System (CTS) and the Avalon FM20 and FM30 fetal-maternal monitors.

System C Healthcare PLC, the provider of specialist IT products and services to the healthcare sector, today announces the acquisition of clinical systems developer Care Records Limited from Huntleigh Healthcare Ltd, one of the UK's largest medical equipment manufacturers.