Abingdon, UK (Scicasts) - Isansys Lifecare Limited, a provider of complete real-time physiological patient data acquisition systems and services, has announced its official debut as a company. The new business, which will focus on providing continuous, real-time patient data to healthcare professionals using the Isansys Lifecare Platform is being headed by Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Keith Errey, the former CEO and Co-Founder of wireless body monitoring technology innovators Toumaz. The privately-funded company’s business operations and engineering team are based at Milton Park, Abingdon, UK.

Armonk, NY (Scicasts) - IBM has unveiled that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Initiate Systems, a market leader in data integrity software for information sharing among healthcare and government organizations. Initiate's software helps healthcare clients work more intelligently and efficiently with timely access to patient and clinical data. It also enables governments to share information across multiple agencies to better serve citizens.

Seattle, WA (Scicast) - Sage Bionetworks has announced a new research partnership with Pfizer to build, analyze and exploit advanced network models of cancer.

Armonk, N.Y. and Malvern, PA. (OBBeC) - Siemens and IBM have teamed up to help community hospitals reduce their operating costs and energy consumption.

As per the announcement, hospitals currently using or planning to use Siemens MedSeries4, a healthcare information system designed specifically for community hospitals, will also benefit from the bundling of powerful server technology from IBM that features the company’s POWER server, its energy-efficient, environmentally friendly BladeCenter Servers, Tivoli Storage Manager software, and specially configured IBM System Storage DS3000 and DS4000 IBM systems.

To ensure each hospital the widest range of health-information applications operating in a standardized environment, Siemens and IBM will consolidate MedSeries4 surround systems in a rack-mounted IBM BladeCenter Server. The BladeCenter is combined with a rack-mounted IBM DS3000 or DS4000 disk storage solution that can eliminate the need to use multiple independent server and storage combinations for individual delivery of these departmental applications.

Further, IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) works to automate data protection, reduce complexity with centralized storage management operations, and coordinate access of all data coming from the applications that reside in the BladeCenter as information flows to one common storage unit.

Finally, the entire system is backed up by IBM’s Linear Tape Option (LTO) tape storage systems.

According to initial cost analyses conducted by IBM and Siemens, the organizations project that community hospitals could cut initial hardware costs by approximately 25 percent.