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."

EHealth Insider, the online UK NHS IT and information management news service, has launched a major campaign calling for every NHS provider organisation to consider appointing a clinician to act as their clinical information champion.

The Intel-GE Care Innovations™ Guide, providing in-home, next-generation telehealth monitoring for a variety of populations including the elderly and patients with chronic, long-term illness, is now available on hundreds of Windows 7 compatible devices.

Staff at the National Spinal Injuries Centre (NSIC) have welcomed the go-live of an IMS MAXIMS solution which has revolutionised its patient records system.

JAC, the UK's leading medicine management systems specialist, has won a contract with Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust (SUHT) to undertake a trust-wide roll out of its Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system.