Patients can stay off NHS database
NHS patients are to be asked whether they want intimate details of their personal medical history to be included in a new national electronic database that can be accessed by GPs, paramedics and hospital staff throughout England. Those worried the information could be abused will be entitled to have it removed from the system or placed in an electronic "sealed envelope", to be opened only in a dire emergency.

UK Hospital Explores Computer Modeling to Predict Cancer Treatment Response
The study will assess the accuracy of Optimata Ltd.'s Virtual Cancer Patient (VCP) software, which uses biomathematics-based modeling to assess and predict how cancer patients will react to treatments such as chemotherapy. The software runs on a cluster of 10 Windows-based computers, and draws on enormous amount of data from breast cancer testing, papers and research to generate combinations of patient characteristics and treatment schedules.

OsiriX: an open-source software for navigating in multidimensional DICOM images
OsiriX is an image processing software dedicated to DICOM images (".dcm" / ".DCM" extension) produced by medical equipment (MRI, CT, PET, PET-CT, ...) and confocal microscopy (LSM and BioRAD-PIC format). Two radiologists recently developed open-source software, called OsiriX, to display and manipulate complex medical images on the popular portable devices called iPods.

'Plug and Play' Connectivity Initiative Launched
Led by representatives from Boston-based Partners Healthcare and Kaiser Permanente in cooperation with the FDA, other health care professionals, and the U.S. Department of Defense, the group plans to incorporate existing interoperability work where possible and to develop new tools where necessary, in order to produce and implement an integrated “plug and play” medical device open networking standard within three years.

Healing rate of EMR-induced ulcer in relation to the duration of treatment with omeprazole
The title of this article serves as an excellent example of why one should never use an acronym in the title of a scientific paper!