Brenda Courtney, a former nurse and Fellow with the HRB Centre for Primary Care Research with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, received the IMS MAXIMS sponsored prize for delivering the best paper at the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland (HISI) annual conference and scientific symposium.

Advanced Health & Care (Advanced), a leading UK supplier of IT management systems for the health and care sector, announces the launch of Electronic Call Monitoring (ECM) using near field communications (NFC) enabled Samsung mobile phones.

Europe's leading Connected Health and M-Health membership organisations announced today that they will merge to create the European Connected Health Alliance (ECHAlliance). With over 100 members throughout Europe, ECHAlliance will provide a solid foundation for further expansion in the rapidly growing MHealth and Connected Health markets.

McKesson announced the successful deployment of its market-leading medical imaging solution at the first four of 35 hospitals in Ireland as part of an exclusive partnership with the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE).

A new report calls on the Department of Health to strengthen its efforts to encourage data sharing in the NHS. Paul Cooper, IMS MAXIMS Head of Research, co-authored 'We Should Talk: Interoperability and the NHS', on behalf of Intellect, the trade association representing the UK's IT, electronics and telecoms industries.

The One Health Alliance, which was set up to bring best of breed technologies to healthcare organisations in both the public and private sector, has said that its members will collaborate to focus on the UK market in order to provide systems that support the changing landscape.

By Dr. med. Heike Unverhau, Head of eHealth, Just Software AG.
Are you an ePatient? If you are looking online for health related information, then you are part of the increasing percentage of population that is searching the internet for information about health topics - in addition to traditional information channels.