A broad alliance of leading technology and wireless companies joined forces to announce the development of Android, the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. Google Inc., T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola and others have collaborated on the development of Android through the Open Handset Alliance, a multinational alliance of technology and mobile industry leaders. 
The St. Lucas Andreas Hospital in Amsterdam-West is to start monitoring more than a hundred chronic heart failure patients at home using the Philips Motiva system. This will not only improve these patients' quality of life, but could also prevent many hospital admissions. The St. Lucas Andreas Hospital is the first hospital in The Netherlands to introduce a remote monitoring system for cardiac patients into its daily operations. 
The MS-HUG Healthcare Innovation Awards, now in its eleventh year, is an opportunity to showcase how your organization and your customer's organization, is using technology to enhance and transform the quality of patient care, reduce costs, streamline clinical and business processes, drive interoperability, improve productivity and workflow, and enable informed decisions. 
Anoto Digital Pen & Paper technology has helped reduce waiting lists for breast cancer screening in France by significantly shortening the time it takes to analyse mammograms. Normal turnaround times of up to three hours were reduced to less than 30 minutes. This means that breast cancer screening centres using the digital pen will be ready for the second stage of France's national 'Plan Cancer' programme, set to start early in 2008. 
FutureSAX invited venture capitalists and entrepreneurs from all over Germany to Dresden under the motto "Lift Off with Venture Capital - Emphasis on Technology and Environment." In front of 80 guests, among them 30 investors, the jury selected Transinsight with its software technology for knowledge-based information searches from seven finalists as the winner of the most promising investment. 
Leading Israeli HMO Maccabi Healthcare Services has won a Microsoft Customer Award for its successful development and deployment of a customer relationship management (CRM) system based on Microsoft's Dynamics CRM platform. The first of its kind in Israel, the system integrates all member requests to any Maccabi branch or its national call center from its member-patients throughout Israel all through a single, unified, simple-to-operate computer system. 
Initiate Systems, Inc. announced the availability of Initiate Patient an advancement of its Initiate Identity Hub® software. Initiate Patient leverages the innovative Initiate Master Data Service version 8.0, a comprehensive master data management (MDM) platform that delivers single, trusted and complete versions of critical data in real time to the people, processes and applications that rely on them.