SYMX Technologies, a provider of equipment life-cycle managementservices for healthcare facilities, has released its asset trackinglocation accountability system, a real-time business processsystem to help hospitals leverage radio frequency identification (RFID)technology.

Danish telecare specialist RTX Healthcare will launch a new wirelesstelehealth monitor, the RTX3370 Telehealth Monitor, which RTX said isable to operate with any clinical information system.

Speech recognition and transcription services provider MedQuist hassigned a multi-year agreement with MedAssets Supply Chain Systems, agroup purchasing organization.

The North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, a nonprofit consortium that aims to improve healthcare in thestate through health IT initiatives, has elected Tom Earnhardt as itspresident for 2007-2008.

Speech recognition software developer Nuance Communications has acquired Commissure, a medical documentation and communications company.

eHealth, the application of information communications technology-based systems and services, has been identified to fundamentallyimprove patient safety in clinical contexts. As a result, the EuropeanCommission launched the eHealth safety study at the beginning of 2006.

InfoLogix, a health IT provider, has acquired Healthcare InformaticsAssociates (HIA), a healthcare management and clinical/financialsystems consulting company.

Last week, at a congressional hearing, four out of five witnesses fromvarious healthcare companies raised concerns about shifting federal healthIT responsibilities from the Health and Human Services Departmentto the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).