By following the eHealthNews.EU Portal success and high appreciation, a new satellite project, named World Pharma News has been launched. The main goals of the World Pharma News project are collecting and spreading the latest worldwide pharmaceutical news, achievements and developments.

eHIT Ltd. and Japanese company AnalyzeYou Inc. have signed a co-operation agreement which includes mobile phone based telecardiology system's global development and maintenance. The first delivery consists of 100 wireless mobile units to Japanese markets.

Australian software developer PowerHealth Solutions announced that The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust has purchased its technologically advanced patient level costing and service line reporting system, PowerPerformance Management, together with the PowerBusiness Reporting suite of ad hoc management and digital dashboard reporting tools.

The swiss-ICT-healthnet is an eHealthcare web project accompanied by a new printed publication, both with main focus on medical IT & eHealth communication in Switzerland and European Union.

If you are interested in knowing more about the medical IT or eHealth communication, you will find daily news and information on conferences, events, research, studies on the new portal.

The General Optical Council (GOC), the regulator for optometrists and dispensing opticians in the UK, has reported on the success of its Continuing Education and Training (CET) scheme. The groundbreaking scheme provides a fully validated record of continuing education activity, to ensure registered opticians keep their skills and knowledge up to date.

The GOC was the first healthcare body to introduce a web-based platform to record and manage continuing post-qualification training activities.

BridgeForward Software, Inc, a leading provider of application integration technology to the UK and US healthcare industry today announced that it has been selected by Capio Healthcare UK - one of the largest independent healthcare providers in the UK - to provide system-wide application integration throughout all of its healthcare facilities in the UK.

Google Health Product discussions have been again refreshed after several official and non-official Google Health Prototype related news articles.

According to the recent New York Times article, Google executives would not comment on the Google Health prototype, other than to say the company plans to experiment and see what people want.