Intel Corporation announced the mobile clinical assistant (MCA) is ready to enable nurses to spend more time with patients, do their jobs on the move while remaining connected, and manage the administration of medications. Motion Computing's C5 is the first product based on Intel's MCA platform and has earned support from clinicians and nurses participating in pilot studies around the world. 
Siemens Medical Solutions and Partners HealthCare have a long-standing research and development relationship focusing on the advancement of medical technology. Now, the two industry-leading organizations are exploring a new collaboration which will bring innovative Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to healthcare information technology. 
General centralized healthcare is evolving toward decentralized community care offering a new era of real patient-centered continuum of care. This trend requires collecting and offering information crossing the borders of medical specialties in a true Electronic Medical Record (EMR). 
eHealth specialist InterComponentWare AG (ICW) presents its new ICW Developer Network (IDN). The IDN will be the primary communication platform for technical experts and software developers seeking to connect isolated healthcare IT applications. 
Health Level Seven (HL7), a preeminent healthcare IT standards development organization with broad international representation, announced it has passed the healthcare industry's first ANSI-approved standard that specifies the functional requirements for an electronic health record system (EHR-S). 
BridgeForward Software, Inc, a leading provider of application integration technology to the US and UK healthcare industry announced that it has been selected by Nuffield Hospitals one of the largest private hospital groups in the UK - to enable them to transition into the fully digital imaging and data-management environment. 
Following months of development and collaboration, iSOFT has announced its intention to support its customers in their adoption of the Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA). The platform, announced earlier by Intel Corporation and Motion Computing, will allow clinicians to spend more time with patients, help improve patient safety and reduce medication administration errors.