Siemens has bundled its expertise in the area of healthcare telematics by transferring the product business of Com's enterprise systems security unit to Med. The transfer includes Com's smartcard-based security solutions unit, which is responsible, among other things, for developing the electronic health card. Med will also acquire the product business of Com's identity and access management unit and network and systems security unit. 
Toumaz Technology Limited has announced the first availability of the Sensium™ modular system, a new ultra-low power wireless infrastructure for health and lifestyle monitoring applications. The wireless-enabled modules, based on Toumaz's ultra-low power Zoum transceiver platform, are being made available now to key customers. 
Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MS-HUG) and Microsoft Corp. announced a call for entries for the MS-HUG Healthcare Innovation Awards. The annual contest, open to any healthcare organization, recognizes leadership in the use of technology to improve the quality and delivery of healthcare. 
eHealth specialist InterComponentWare AG (ICW) and the Belgian Vitalsys SA agreed upon a marketing and sales cooperation. Vitalsys will offer ICW's eHealth solutions for the Belgian market and make their HomeCare devices compatible with ICW's personal health record LifeSensor. 
Capgemini Sverige AB and dbMotion Ltd., one of the world's leading software suppliers of Integrated Solutions for Health information Exchange (HIE), have entered into a partnership agreement. This means that Capgemini will become a prime dbMotion partner in Sweden for providing a comprehensive solution for a National Integrated Patient Summary and local/regional medical information consolidation. 
The Antwerp University Hospital (UZA Belgium) has contracted IBM's long-term business partner I.R.I.S. along with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to deliver several backbone solutions for its electronic patient record (EPR). The project, which will include the digitization of the hospital's extensive medical archive, will increase process efficiency at the hospital's Medical Information department. 
The new HIMSS initiative is focused on bringing together healthcare IT professionals in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, or EMEA, who share the common goal of improving the delivery of healthcare through information technology and management systems.