CSW has been shortlisted as a finalist for the prestigious British Computer Society (BCS) IT Awards in the categories 'SME Organisation of the Year' and 'Supplier Organisation of the Year'. The awards embrace IT innovation and business achievements combined with organisational excellence and are recognised as a leading hallmark of success in the IT industry in the UK. 
In July 2007, HIMSS EMEA launched its first Health IT Community forum on XING, a unique online platform with 1.5 million members in over 190 countries networking in at least 16 different languages. This step into the online networking world is part of the HIMSS EMEA mission of leading change in the healthcare information and management systems field through knowledge sharing, advocacy, collaboration, innovation and community affiliations. 
iSOFT has won contracts totalling £1m for a technology refresh of laboratory information systems at nine NHS trusts in Wales. The deal includes iSOFT's latest i.Laboratory TP application providing an InterSystems Caché environment for better performance and greater resilience. It also ensures that all NHS trusts in Wales are running the same version of i.Laboratory TP as two other trusts upgraded earlier this year.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) researchers unveiled a prototype visualization software that allows doctors to interact with medical data the same way they interact with their patients: by looking at the human body. Created at IBM's Zurich Research Lab, the technology uses an avatar - a 3D representation of the human body - to allow doctors to visualize patient medical records in an entirely new way. iSOFT has introduced a new reporting tool giving the 150 NHS trusts using its laboratory information systems the ability to produce detailed management and pathology reports in minutes, after an agreement with business intelligence partner FMI Business Solutions Group. The new Web-based Rapid Analytics module from FMI is for users of iSOFT i.Laboratory and i.Laboratory TP. 
Santo Holding (Germany) GmbH of Hexal founders Strüngmann secured a 25 percent share in the eHealth specialist InterComponentWare AG (ICW). This transaction was performed by the purchase of newly issued shares in the context of an increase in capital stock. The present owners of ICW do not surrender any shares in this transaction. 
RHÖN-KLINIKUM AG will link up all of its facilities, currently numbering 46, using a web-based electronic health record. The goal of this system is to assist in enhancing the quality of care delivered to the more than one million patients seen annually by the Group. With Soarian Integrated Care (Soarian IC), Siemens Medical Solutions will provide the software for the WebEPA, as specified in the contract signed today in Bad Neustadt a. d. S. by Wolfgang Pföhler, Chairman of the Board of Management of RHÖN-KLINIKUM AG, and Prof. Dr. Erich R. Reinhardt, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and President of Siemens Medical Solutions.