In today's challenging economic environment, technology start-ups can struggle to bring new ideas to market. In response, IBM (NYSE: IBM) opened its resources to these companies in a new initiative to help this next generation of entrepreneurs capture emerging business opportunities in fast-growing industries such as energy and utilities, health care, telecommunications and government. 
To provide strong support for both the European Union Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) research initiative and the global "Physiome" community, the process to establish a European VPH Institute has now officially started. 
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, and CollabNet®, the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (Agile ALM) in the Cloud, announced today that Agfa HealthCare has deployed CollabNet TeamForge™ to support more than 200 major software development projects around the globe. Agfa HealthCare's revenue decreased 2.8 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2008. Excluding currency effects, revenue increased slightly by 0.3 percent. The fourth quarter traditionally is Agfa HealthCare's strongest quarter of the year. 
System C Healthcare, Microsoft®, Orion Health and Liquidlogic have joined forces to produce the first health and social care link under NHS Connecting for Health's (CfH) new standards for systems integration. 
TICBioMed is a cooperation platform for technology firms, health organisations, universities and other stakeholders involved in technological innovation applied to medicine, healthcare and biology in Murcia Region (Southeast Spain).