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.

Health Level Seven (HL7), a preeminent healthcare IT standards development organization with broad international representation, announced it has passed the healthcare industry's first ANSI-approved standard that specifies the functional requirements for an electronic health record system (EHR-S).

BridgeForward Software, Inc, a leading provider of application integration technology to the US and UK healthcare industry announced that it has been selected by Nuffield Hospitals – one of the largest private hospital groups in the UK - to enable them to transition into the fully digital imaging and data-management environment.

Following months of development and collaboration, iSOFT has announced its intention to support its customers in their adoption of the Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA). The platform, announced earlier by Intel Corporation and Motion Computing, will allow clinicians to spend more time with patients, help improve patient safety and reduce medication administration errors.

Leading Israeli HMO Maccabi Healthcare Services today announced that it is making its technology-driven health value-added knowledge base, which it currently uses to manage over 30 million patient-HMO interactions annually among its 1,7 million members - more than one-quarter of Israel's total population – available for adoption by HMOs worldwide.

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) was recently recognized in the 2006 Top 20 Year End Best in KLAS Awards report. KLAS, an independent research firm specializing in monitoring and reporting performance of healthcare information technology vendors, announced that the Philips CALYSTO technology was named the KLAS Specialty Niche Category Leader for Cardiology Hemodynamics.

Increasing integration in the European healthcare industry is creating the need for a single point of contact for healthcare IT (HIT) systems, which in turn, is driving the market for HIT platforms. Across Europe, healthcare providers are in search of a single, unified platform for clinical and administrative solutions and healthcare IT vendors with comprehensive product portfolios are attempting to address these needs though individual as well as group solutions.