Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) has announced the successful integration of its SpeechMagic technology into GE Healthcare Centricity Radiology Information System (RIS) in a Citrix environment. Centricity powered by SpeechMagic is the first RIS to provide industrial grade speech recognition - including front and backend support - within Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure.

In the framework of the development scheme 'Central Innovation Scheme for Medium-sized Businesses' of the German Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology (BMWI), clinIT AG, based in Freiburg, Germany, has been awarded a six-figure federal grant in cooperation with the Institute for Informatics of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Faculty for Data Bases and Information Systems.

iB Solutions, an IBA Health Group company (ASX:IBA), has won a contract worth over €600,000 with the Medical Council of Ireland in Dublin to develop a system for the country's 17,000 doctors to register membership online. The deal includes capital spend and support for five years.

In today's dynamic healthcare environment, there is a growing complexity of networks and devices. Physicians and nurses are increasingly mobile, yet they need to make quick decisions based on clinical evidence located elsewhere. As a result, clinicians need easy access to information for decision support - regardless of where they are or the location of the data.

SCM Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCMM, Prime Standard: SMY), a leading provider of solutions that open the Digital World, today announced its latest terminal for the German electronic health card program: the eHealth500 mobile terminal.

At this year's World of Health IT Exhibition, held in Copenhagen, Panasonic has launched the world's first mobile clinical assistant (MCA) device using the Intel® Atom™ processor, further strengthening the company's position in the healthcare market. Based on the Intel® mobile clinical assistant reference platform, the new CF-H1 MCA is designed specifically for clinicians.

With a deep understanding of healthcare workflow and more than a century of experience as a global medical publisher, Elsevier is increasing its efforts to provide interactive clinical reference and clinical decision support (CDS) tools to new markets in Europe.