TietoEnator will supply an operational planning system for home and elderly care services to the City of Stockholm. The system is to be integrated with the city's existing operational system. The system being procured - named SchemOS by the City authorities - offers efficient planning support for care suppliers throughout the City of Stockholm. 
The electronic healthcare card is viewed in Germany as an opportunity for a modern healthcare system. Experts estimate that more than 500 million euros can be saved in Germany annually. Behind this number are intelligent server solutions, billions and billions of data bits, highly-developed security technology, digital hospitals, networked physicians, and above all: a focus on patients. At Medica 2006 Siemens is exhibiting the first functional scenario for integrated healthcare in Germany, including cards, connector, and mandatory and value-added services. Medica visitors can discover how integrated healthcare could work in the future. For this scenario, Siemens already satisfies the stringent data protection and security requirements of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) regarding the confidential processing and transfer of patient data. TietoEnator supplies for the Perinatal Registration Netherlands Foundation the exploitation solution of registrations regarding perinatal care in the Netherlands. The registrations have been administrated and managed by Foundation PRN since 2001. The contract supports TietoEnator's growth strategy in Europe and marks a major step in developing IT services for healthcare registrations in the Netherlands by TietoEnator. 
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced the 100,000 th registered medical professional on the Philips Learning Center, an online resource providing continuing education anytime, anywhere one can access the Internet. 
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates aired his opinions on innovation in Europe and renewed his commitment to working with European partners at the recent Microsoft Innovation Day in Brussels. Siemens Medical Solutions shows syngo WebSpace, a client-server computed tomography (CT) workplace solution, at Medica 2006 from November 15 through 18, 2006.