When UK-based Spire Healthcare set out to procure a new PACS to cover 26 hospitals in their group across the UK and to implement a new RIS at the same hospitals, they had clear objectives - they wanted to provide the best quality service to patients and consultants, using modern technology. 
IBM announced that multiple hospitals throughout Russia have switched from paper-based medical systems to a new solution from IBM and Complex Medical Information Systems (C-MIS) to provide fast electronic medical record exchange and unified access to many types of healthcare data, 
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq "MSFT") unveiled the next generation of the Microsoft Surface experience featuring PixelSense technology, which gives LCD panels the power to see without the use of cameras. 
Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) has acquired substantially all of the assets of medSage Technologies LLC, a leading provider of patient interaction and management applications ("medSage Technologies"). 
GE (NYSE:GE) and Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) announced that Intel-GE Care Innovations LLC ("Care Innovations") is the name of their healthcare joint venture and that the company is operational. Care Innovations will develop technologies that support healthy, independent living at home and in senior housing communities. 
As the winter flu outbreak continues to spread, GPs now have a new resource to call on - a web portal that allows them to compare their own flu rates and vaccination uptake with national levels. 
Google has recently announced an application called Body Browser that allows to visualize complex 3D graphics of the human body.