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.
Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) announced that its SpeechMagic technology now powers the largest front-end speech recognition site in the UK's healthcare sector. Using SpeechMagic, the 60 radiologists at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI) are put in full control of the creation of medical reports. Physicians no longer have to wait for reports to return from the transcription department, which sometimes took several weeks. As a result, clinicians and referring physicians are provided with accurate medical data quickly, to support safe and speedy treatment. 
A new guide has been developed called "Dementia Care - Solutions for Independent Living", offering valuable information on how telecare can be used to support people with dementia and their carers.
Dementia currently affects 700,000 people in the UK, a figure which is set to double in a generation, bringing a financial cost of over £35 billion in residential care and accommodation, lost earnings and unpaid tax.
Orion Health Limited, a leading provider of integration and clinical workflow technology to the health sector, was pleased to announce today that Rhapsody Integration Engine continues to be adopted at a rapid rate by NHS Trusts in England, answering the need to link together internal hospital systems as well as interface to systems deployed under NHS Connecting for Health. 
IBM and Mainsoft Corporation, an independent software and IBM business partner, announced that the Belgian University Hospital Ghent (UZ Gent) has chosen IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 to develop a self-service virtual information center for its 5,000 staff members, students, healthcare professionals, plus more than 380,000 patients and their families that visit the hospital each year. 
The eHealth specialist InterComponentWare AG (ICW) was chosen as technology partner, which is providing the web-based personal health record LifeSensor for the three-year research study. BARMER, Germany's largest health insurance provider, starts evaluating the effects of the personal health record on the health behavior and the situation for the provision of health care to its insured as part of a Germany-wide research study. Cardiovascular diseases are the world's number one killer. Globally, over 17 million people die from such diseases each year, and it's estimated that the number of cardiac patients will increase by 34% over the next four years. For cardiologists, this translates into a growing pressure to treat more patients in less time. Technology is already helping cardiologists to meet this challenge at many stages in the care cycle. But too often new technology means new levels of complexity.