Norway's role as world leader in new health technology, is the background for HP opening their European centre of health technology in Bryn, Oslo. The centre is equipped like a small hospital, complete with a patient room, watch room and an adjacent demonstration room.

A new agreement was announced between Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: CLXS), a leading developer of semantic knowledge discovery software and expert profiles, and JISC Collections for an online resource, which aims to encourage greater collaboration and expand scientific knowledge amongst the biomedical research community in the UK.

Stollmann has been one of the first manufacturers in the world to implement the Bluetooth SIG's Health Device Profile (HDP) for medical devices. According to the terms of their cooperative agreement, Stollmann is now making this profile available to the members of the Continua Health Alliance, an organization of the most important global medical device manufacturers.

IBM announced that it is collaborating with nine business partners to help healthcare providers, clinics and hospitals improve productivity, increase quality and reduce costs through the use of service oriented architecture (SOA). These partners are all working to develop their latest healthcare applications using the IBM SOA Foundation and supporting a set of open technology and industry standards.

Google Health is online after a year and a half since Adam Bosworth announced a health product from Google. Google Health proposes to:

• Organize your health information all in one place
• Gather your medical records from doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies
• Keep your doctors up to date about your health
• Be more informed about important health issues

RTX Healthcare today announced a new member to the family of interactive telehealth monitors, which allows healthcare system integrators and disease management companies to effectively monitor patients at home. The RTX3371 GSM/GPRS Telehealth Monitor collects vital signs wirelessly from external devices and subjective patient information from patient questionnaires and transmits the data directly to the system integrator or disease management company's own clinical information system.

Axiomatics will supply the new XACML based security system - building on its Delegent Authorization Server - for the Swedish Medical Care Advice Service's ground-breaking information provision project. Together with Logica in Sweden, Axiomatics will supply an IT solution that enables healthcare workers around the country to securely access patients' medical history.