The United Nations Foundation working with Vodafone Group Foundation to strengthen health data systems by digitalizing it in Africa.

IBM, in collaboration with the Nuclear Threat Initiative's Global Health and Security Initiative and the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance (MECIDS), has created a unique technology that standardizes the method of sharing health information and automates the analysis of infectious disease outbreaks, in order to help contain diseases and minimize their impact.

The healthcare industry finding itself in an unfamiliar position, increasingly using  wireless technology to minimise the cost and disruption associated with the deployment of innovative ehealth and telecare services.

The ACUSON X300 Premium Edition device offers superior image quality, advanced features for a wide range of clinical applications and is a future proof platform for feature upgrades, according to the manufacturer.

Intel Corporation has announced Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare - software that provides an efficient way to exchange healthcare information inside hospitals and with health information networks.  This  will allow healthcare providers to more easily connect with one another so that each can provide better care while benefiting from reduced integration costs.

Wireless location-based services (LBS) provider SquareLoop has introduced a text messaging system to enable secure transmission of health data over public wireless networks.

Mobile Gateway is now Bluetooth compatible with the Philips HeartStart MRx monitor/defibrillator, allowing paramedics in the field to wirelessly send patient data to hospitals and caregivers without the use of mobile phones, modems or expensive wireless adaptors.

In a major advance patients and their families across Europe can now check out on-line the credentials of laboratories offering genetic tests.

Siemens AG dubbed the P10, a quick portable ultrasound machine, the smallest currently on the market.  Eyal Herzog, director of the cardiac-care unit at St. Luke's , who is testing the P10 has said Such gadgets could become a vital tool in emergency medicine. "Assessment of the patient is much faster, easier" than using the heavy echocardiogram machine his team wheels from room to room and the image quality is nearly equivalent.

Avnet Technology Solutions, an operating group of Avnet, has announced the launch of an independent software vendor (ISV) ecosystem designed specifically for the healthcare technology market.

IBM has announced on Tuesday, February 26th  at HIMSS08 a portfolio of health analytics solutions for health systems.

Boston Scientific Corp. said Monday that it has won approval for three new coronary medical devices from the Food and Drug Administration.

Mobile operator Vodafone recently published a report which argues the need for the widespread use of mobile technology in the healthcare sector. According to the report, mobile technology has the potential to increase productivity, improve patient health and enable greater access to healthcare.

Harvest Technologies Corp.’s Harvest BMAC™ treatment for Critical Limb Ischemia has been found to reduce amputation rates significantly. Nearly all the patients who underwent this treatment had severe pain at rest and were already scheduled for leg amputation. All surgical and endovascular options had been previously exhausted.

Enova Medical Technologies announced that it has developed a new LED technology for cordless surgical headlights for the first time. This breakthrough technology reaches light output levels exceeding 200,000 lux at 14 inches.

Researchers at Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland have demonstrated a needle-free jet injection increases the amount of cancer treatment agent when treating skin cancer. By producing a high velocity liquid jet with sufficient intensity to pierce the skin, it could potentially improve the effectiveness of skin cancer treatment.