Gateshead Health Chooses BridgeHead's VNA for its Image Data Management Strategy
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, also known as QE Gateshead, has selected BridgeHead Software (BridgeHead), the Healthcare Data Management company, to implement its Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) for a multi-staged image management project. QE Gateshead is actively taking strategic decisions across the Trust to create a comprehensive electronic patient record (EPR) and is embarking upon a data strategy to help facilitate the EPR of which the VNA plays a significant part. 
Siemens Healthcare introduces version VA30 of its routine 3D and advanced reading software syngo.via, featuring new applications and functionalities that further streamline and accelerate the syngo.via experience. The latest innovation is the syngo.via General Engine, a new package of highly automated and standardized applications. 
Tunstall Healthcare, the leading provider of telehealth and telecare solutions, has renewed its commitment to supporting working carers by joining Employers for Carers, the national membership forum for employers supported by national charity Carers UK. 
Agfa HealthCare has successfully implemented its DX-D Retrofit direct radiography (DR) upgrade solution at two hospitals; The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust. An Agfa HealthCare customer for over 26 years, The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides healthcare for the residents of Bournemouth, Christchurch, East Dorset and part of the New Forest with a total population of around 550,000, which rises during the summer months. 
Carestream Health in France has been selected to provide shared PACS and RIS services and teleradiology support in the Midi-Pyrénées region. The tender process was supported by Groupement de Coopération Sanitaire (GCS) Télésanté Midi-Pyrénées and will allow all medical imaging produced in the region to be shared. 
IMS MAXIMS will be demonstrating the benefits of their portfolio of user-focused solutions, including innovative dementia software, to a major clinical audience at the Acute and General Medicine conference in London, 27 - 28th November. 
Healthcare is constantly changing. The best way to deal with this change is for all parties in the sector to join forces. Philips is putting this principle into action under the banner "Transforming healthcare, together", and at this year's MEDICA it will demonstrate solutions that have been developed together with users.