SmartLife Technology has advanced remote monitoring by integrating sophisticated, knitted sensors into any garment from shirts to socks to arm bands. Until now, traditional health monitoring was fashioned through adhesive pads/gels, wired to medical equipment and focused on torso monitoring. 
Transinsight's GoPubMed.com, the semantic search engine for the life sciences, has been recognized with the 2009 red dot: best of the best award in the category communication design - graphical user interfaces and interactive tool. A total of 6,112 submissions were received from 42 countries. 
In the near future, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg (CHL) will be installing the basis module of the hospital information system (HIS) i.s.h.med by Siemens for more than 1,400 users. The selling point for the hospital's decision to purchase Siemens equipment were the integration into the existing ERP and SAP for Healthcare System as well as the multilingualism of i.s.h.med. 
Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a new business intelligence tool from System C Healthcare. Called Medway Sigma BI, the software is designed specifically to help hospitals in the drive for improved services. Based on Microsoft's latest technology, it is easy to use, but allows trusts to manipulate and analyse raw data relating to all aspects of their inpatient and outpatient services. 
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and GlyGenix Therapeutics, Inc. (Woodbridge, Connecticut, USA) today announced a joint research agreement to explore the feasibility of using ultrasound technologies for gene therapy. In particular, the collaboration will research the treatment of Glycogen Storage Disease Type 1a (GSD-1a) in pre-clinical studies.