Philips and Misys collaborate to offer technology solutions to the homecare marketplace
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHI) and Misys Healthcare Systems, a leader in healthcare IT, announced a plan to join forces to provide a comprehensive solution for the homecare market. The companies intend to develop an integrated software platform that enables homecare agencies to provide high quality care to chronically ill patients, while benefiting from operational efficiencies in monitoring and managing their patients' health status. 
Healthcare IT supplier - CSW Group has been ranked at number 70 in the Real Business/LDC Hot 100 league table, which charts the UK's fastest-growing privately owned businesses. This follows CSW's listing in the Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 league table of fastest growing privately owned technology firms, which was published at the end of last year. 
Orion Health Limited, a leading provider of integration and clinical workflow technology to the health sector, announced today that University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) has selected Orion Health to build a new document tracking solution to improve access and filing for patient notes at Leicester's hospitals (Glenfield Hospital, Leicester General and Leicester Royal Infirmary) and 12 community facilities. 
Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany, and its partner hospitals of the Health Centers Rhein-Neckar GmbH will be able to jointly access their patients medical data. Using the Professional Suite of the international eHealth specialist, InterComponentWare AG (ICW), this cooperation will enable those involved in a patient's treatment to access medical data via an interfacility medical record.