By Bill Crounse, MD, Senior Director, Worldwide Health Executive Producer Health Tech Today, Microsoft Corporation.
I landed today in Budapest, Hungary. Shortly after arriving at my hotel, I took a brisk walk along the riverfront. When I travel internationally, I always try to get some daylight soon after arriving to help me adjust to the new time.

Motion Computing®, a leading global provider of tablet PCs and supporting mobility solutions, announced today from the World of Health IT (WoHIT) 2011 Conference and Exhibition, that Clinique Esquirol Saint Hilaire (CESH) is the first recipient of its Excellence in Mobile Point of Care Award - Europe.

XIRING, a security solutions provider for electronic transactions, will be participating at eHealth Week 2011, the European eHealth community's annual event, to be held in Budapest from May 10 to 12, 2011.

McKesson today announces that it has successfully completed it's acquisition of System C, a specialist provider of software and services to the health and social care markets.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) is reporting major benefits from a new innovative IT solution which has significantly improved patient safety, transformed workforce planning and productivity and increased clinical governance.

SCM Microsystems, a leading provider of solutions for secure access, secure identity and secure exchange and a business unit of Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE, Frankfurt: INV), has received its first orders for 10,000 eHealth terminals to support the relaunch of the electronic health card program in Germany.

The current process of referring patients for specialty or follow-up care is a notably disjointed process. Typically, all participants in the referrals process must rely on paper, telephone calls and faxes for communication and coordination.