Due to the information system implemented by Romsys, Romania is one of the first countries that implement UE settlements regarding quality and security standards in order to collect, process, stock and provide human blood and blood components as well. 
Health Industry Insights, an IDC company, announced the release of a new report which identifies Western European Healthcare top 10 predictions for 2007. Among the predictions, Health Industry Insights' European team foresees a long-term shift to transform service delivery to a patient-centric model, where prevention of acute episodes is part of patient every-day lives at home, and patients act as gatekeepers to national consolidated electronic health records. 
Erich Reinhardt, member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and president and CEO of Siemens Medical Solutions, has been awarded the International Neurobionics Award 2006 in the amount of 25,000 Euro by the International Neurobionics Foundation. Erich R. Reinhardt would like to promote young scientists with his prize money. 
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.