System C Healthcare has won a contract from Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for its maternity information system. The order follows close on the heels of a successful go-live for the company's Medway Maternity software at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

iSOFT Group Limited (ASX: ISF) - Australia's largest listed health information technology company today announced the implementation of the latest version of its Lorenzo electronic patient record solution at NHS Bury Primary Care Trust (PCT) in Lancashire. NHS Bury went live on 3 November with iSOFT's Lorenzo Regional Care 1.9.

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and Achmea Health, the largest healthcare insurer in the Netherlands, signed a five-year agreement to cooperate in the development of innovative care solutions aimed at increasing the independence of chronic patients. The initiative will focus on enabling chronic disease sufferers to better manage their health at home, reducing the need for hospital stays.

CSC (NYSE: CSC) recently announced that their 1,000th GP practice has implemented a new electronic health records system, delivered under the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The system, part of CSC's strategic primary care solution, is called SystmOne and is developed by TPP.

Lincor Solutions, the leading provider of global bedside computing solutions to hospitals, has announced that it will release its unique MEDIVista Enterprise Server software (MES2.0) at MEDICA 09 in Düsseldorf, Germany on November 18-21 2009.

medavis GmbH, a leading provider of medical information systems will present the medavis RIS with fully integrated speech recognition, using the Nuance SpeechMagic (TM) software, at MEDICA 2009. The direct integration into the RIS workflow enables radiologists to quickly and efficiently produce reports, via speech recognition technology, in their normal system environment.

Toumaz Technology Limited, the leading provider of ultra-low power wireless infrastructure for body monitoring solutions and wholly owned subsidiary of Toumaz Holdings (AIM: TMZ.L), has begun clinical trials of its Sensium™ "digital plaster" wireless body monitor.