NHS Tayside has become the first NHS organisation in the UK to employ Voice Technologies’ WinVoicePro to achieve electronic correspondence between all clinics and GP practices; equating to a saving of more than £250,000 per year.

COCIR issued an easy-to-use tool to help determine whether software is a medical device or not. Since the revision of the European Medical Device Directive, in force as of 21 March 2010, the definition for medical devices also includes software used for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

McKesson UK, the trusted healthcare IT solutions and services specialist, has been awarded 'IT Supplier of the Year' by The British Computer Society (BCS) & Computing UK IT Industry Awards 2010.

International clinical supply chain experts Sentient Health are offering NHS trusts the chance to identify and make immediate savings and improve their efficiency. The company, which is expanding rapidly in the UK, has launched an 'Evidence Based Savings' assessment (EBSa) to enable trusts to identify which clinical supplies are overstocked, under-stocked and out of date.

New Zealand's status as a trailblazer in eHealth was confirmed at the inaugural Global E-Health Forum on October 25 and 26, 2010 in Hamburg, where approximately 250 delegates from more than 30 countries learnt about e-health strategies, solutions and services from around the world.

McKesson UK, the trusted healthcare technology solutions and services provider, announced that East Midlands' commissioning services organisation EMPACT (East Midlands Procurement and Commissioning Transformation) has selected InterQual to provide evidence-based guidelines assessment across the region's PCTs, acute trusts and community hospitals.

medavis GmbH will present portal4med at MEDICA 2010 in Düsseldorf, its new solution for facilitating communication across multiple locations and areas of specialisation. It is an innovative platform that combines various medical portals to manage workflow in medical networks.