More than 100 NHS staff from across the country visited University Hospital Aintree, on Longmoor Lane, to witness the hospital's cutting-edge IT system, which is designed to improve the quality of patient care and safety.

JAC, the UK's leading medicine management systems specialist, has won a contract with University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (UH Bristol) to undertake a Trust-wide roll out of the JAC Pharmacy Stock Control System.

Ultra low power (ULP) RF specialist Nordic Semiconductor ASA (OSE: NOD) today announces that British medical services startup, Isansys Lifecare Limited, has announced the world's first commercially-available, clinical-grade, wireless cardiac monitor to support low cost continuous ECG heart monitoring.

Ekahau, the worldwide leader in high performance Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), announced a strategic cooperation with Cisco Healthcare in Germany. Ekahau is already a member of the Cisco Developer Network (CDN) and Ekahau RTLS solution is CCX- (Cisco Compatible Extensions) and Cisco Assurewave -certified.

Solutions 4 Health has announced the launch of a new smoking cessation application built on Microsoft HealthVault, a privacy and security enhanced citizen health platform. The telehealth application, called smokefreelife, provides smokers with the support needed to quit, through personal interaction provided by trained smoking cessation advisors.

Scottish cloud software and services provider Flexiant is providing a cloud platform for a research project that promises NHS patients complete control over their medical records and the power to decide who has access to their data.

The Official Google Blog has announced that Google is going to retire Google Health product "that didn't catch on the way we would have hoped."