SCM Microsystems, a leading provider of solutions for secure access, secure identity and secure exchange and a business unit of Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE, Frankfurt: INV), has received its first orders for 10,000 eHealth terminals to support the relaunch of the electronic health card program in Germany.

The current process of referring patients for specialty or follow-up care is a notably disjointed process. Typically, all participants in the referrals process must rely on paper, telephone calls and faxes for communication and coordination.

The UK research community will soon have access to world-class medical imaging facilities in London with the signing of an agreement between an alliance of leading London-based universities, the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).

Care UK - one of the country's most respected independent operators of GP practices, out-of-hours services, NHS walk-in centres, and Clinical Assessment and Treatment Services (CATS) - has selected IMS MAXIMS for roll- out at its three specialist diagnostic centres.

iMDsoft®'s Clinical Information Systems, coupled with MetaVision Event ManagerTM, are proven to significantly improve care quality and efficiency, to increase adherence to regulations and protocols and to deliver financial benefits.

By Shane Tickell, CEO IMS MAXIMS.
A quick question for NHS managers - who would like to see complaints plummet and satisfaction levels increase without any change in care services? I strongly suspect this is possible and part of the reason I raise it is that it feeds into all the issues surrounding electronic patient information.

Healthcare business intelligence specialist Ardentia has introduced an updated version of its Patient Level Costing (PLC) solution, designed to give NHS Trusts greater financial visibility at patient-level, helping to drive out inefficiencies and improve patient experience.