Following the announcement in January 2007 of its intent, Siemens Medical Solutions announced today that it has received antitrust approval and completed its acquisition of Gesellschaft fur Systemforschung und Dienstleistungen im Gesundheitswesen mbH (GSD), headquartered in Berlin. 
Initiate Systems, Inc., the leading provider of customer-centric master data management solutions for creating complete, real-time views of data about people, households, and organisations, announced it is the only vendor to pass all Integrating the Health Enterprise (IHE) compliance requirements for support of Health Level 7 Version 3 (HL7 V3) for Patient Identifier Cross-reference (PIX) Manager and Patient Demographic Query (PDQ) Manager interoperability standards. 
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced its plan to design, manufacture and ship a Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) to enable nurses and physicians to improve bedside patient care by using an integrated, wireless device to connect to patient information stored in electronic medical records. 
Intel Corporation announced the mobile clinical assistant (MCA) is ready to enable nurses to spend more time with patients, do their jobs on the move while remaining connected, and manage the administration of medications. Motion Computing's C5 is the first product based on Intel's MCA platform and has earned support from clinicians and nurses participating in pilot studies around the world. Siemens Medical Solutions and Partners HealthCare have a long-standing research and development relationship focusing on the advancement of medical technology. Now, the two industry-leading organizations are exploring a new collaboration which will bring innovative Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to healthcare information technology. 
General centralized healthcare is evolving toward decentralized community care offering a new era of real patient-centered continuum of care. This trend requires collecting and offering information crossing the borders of medical specialties in a true Electronic Medical Record (EMR). 
eHealth specialist InterComponentWare AG (ICW) presents its new ICW Developer Network (IDN). The IDN will be the primary communication platform for technical experts and software developers seeking to connect isolated healthcare IT applications.