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.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced two major scientific achievements in the field of nanotechnology that could one day lead to new kinds of devices and structures built from a few atoms or molecules. Although still far from making their way into products, these breakthroughs will enable scientists at IBM and elsewhere to continue driving the field of nanotechnology, the exploration of building structures and devices out of ultra-tiny, atomic-scale components.

By following the eHealthNews.EU Portal success and high appreciation, a new satellite project, named World Pharma News has been launched. The main goals of the World Pharma News project are collecting and spreading the latest worldwide pharmaceutical news, achievements and developments.

eHIT Ltd. and Japanese company AnalyzeYou Inc. have signed a co-operation agreement which includes mobile phone based telecardiology system's global development and maintenance. The first delivery consists of 100 wireless mobile units to Japanese markets.