Open Health Tools (OHT) today announced a collaborative effort between national health agencies, government-funded organizations and agencies, major healthcare providers, international standards organizations and companies from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States to develop common healthcare IT products and services. 
Atos Origin, a leading international IT services provider, announced the signing of a five-year contract with the Gesellschaft für Telematikanwendungen der Gesundheitskarte mbH (gematik) for the implementation of the German electronic health card. 
Ascribe plc (AIM:ASP), the innovative health IT Group, today announced that it has successfully installed its Web Pharmacy solution at the Royal Bolton Hospital, part of the Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust and that the site is completely operational. One unique aspect of this 'Go Live' was that, on the same day that the hospital changed its pharmacy IT system, they also brought online a robotic dispensing system; thereby taking a massive leap forward in improving patient care and safety. 
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The keynote speech describing in details the Google Health initiative by Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Google Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer, at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition has been recently made available at the Google's official YouTube channel.
At this year's edition of CeBIT, Atos Origin will participate as gold sponsor at the French-German ICT summit on March 4th. Atos Worldline will present its upgraded card management system for processing the German electronic health card at the 1st edition of the international TeleHealth convention dedicated to the eHealth sector.