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• Microsoft updates e-health data-aggregation software

  Microsoft on Monday will unveil a new version of its software for aggregating health records that makes it easier for patients and doctors to share information electronically.

• Intel, GE partner on home health tech

  Intel and General Electric have formed an alliance to market and create home-based health care technologies, in an effort to reduce health-care costs and allow elderly people to stay out of hospitals.

• Wireless can transform health care, doc says

  Wireless devices will create a sea change in the way medicine can be practiced, a top U.S. doctor said Thursday at the CTIA conference in Las Vegas.

• IBM, Mayo form open-source health IT consortium

  Biomedical informatics researchers at IBM and the Mayo Clinic have launched a new open-source consortium focused on natural language processing (NLP), in an effort to help doctors share diagnosis and treatment information.

• Nortel set to unveil health care offerings, ROI tool

  Nortel Networks, still in bankruptcy protection from creditors, plans over the next two weeks to unveil new healthcare communications software and an updated online tool that adds the ability to calculate the total cost of ownership of business networks.

• $12M Vic virtual care unit opens

  The $12 million Virtual Trauma and Critical Care Unit (VTCCu) has today officially opened and will connect some 260 regional Victorians a year to superior metropolitan medical services.
  

• Irate IT staff a bitter pill for QLD Health

  Queensland Health (QH) became a target for an outburst of mudslinging when people either close to, or inside the organisation, dished the dirt on its IT department and revolving door CIOs.
  

• E-health projects sick without govt aid

  Health professionals have slammed Australian governments for a lacklustre investment in e-health, claiming the nation has slipped behind many countries in the field because of weak funding and unresponsive departments.

• Local software to reduce hospital bottlenecks

  New software developed by the Australian e-Health Research Centre claims to assist hospital emergency medical staff to better gauge demand on their services.