InterSystems Corporation announced that its Ensemble rapid integration software ranked number one for interface engines in the survey of healthcare enterprises conducted annually by KLAS Enterprises LLC, a leader in healthcare technology research. The awards were announced in the 2006 Top 20: Year-End Best in KLAS Awards report.

While the festive period has left some people overweight, the consumer electronics market is now looking rather thin. However, according to a report by Cambridge UK analysts Wireless Healthcare, some consumer electronics companies are exploiting the growing demand for devices and services that help people remain trim, fit and mentally alert.

On January 1, 2007, Siemens Medical Solutions took over Gesellschaft für Systemforschung und Dienstleistungen im Gesundheitswesen mbH (GSD), headquartered in Berlin. With more than 300 customers in 14 countries, GSD is a market leader in the area of health information systems (HIS).

Orion Health, a global provider of clinical workflow and integration technology for the healthcare sector, together with Oracle, and Fujitsu Services, IT services provider in Healthcare today announced that Hospital Universitario Son Dureta in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, has gone live with an electronic health record and clinical applications portal that will provide clinicians with faster and more convenient access to patient data across the 900 bed facility. The system is based on the Oracle® Healthcare Transaction Base.

Medify Solutions Limited announced that it has been awarded Vodafone Certified application status for its MedifyRemote™ application. MedifyRemote™ is the first application of its type and allows healthcare professionals mobile access to review and update a patients' medical history records in a single, secure session via a standard Microsoft Windows Mobile PDA/phone device.

Three general practitioners, five pharmacies, and 1,000 patients will be included in the pilot project for a national electronic health card in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) assigned the implementation of the pilot project to the international eHealth specialist ICW and Cisco, the world's leading provider of routing and network security solutions.

How do you improve care and lower costs? IBM and other industry leaders believe that patient-centric healthcare is the answer. This new approach puts the patient in charge of their well-being by defining treatment and operational policies that center around the individual.