Plymouth NHS ICT Shared Service has established an industry-standards-based approach that integrates the IT for the cross-organisational care services that it supports. This has enabled its users to protect existing investments, streamline care processes, reduce costs and improve clinical outcomes. 
Agfa HealthCare announces that long-term customer Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg (ZOL) will implement IMPAX for Cardiology, IMPAX for Radiology and IMPAX Enterprise. This is the first time the three picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) will be implemented at the same time, creating a fully integrated, interdisciplinary system. 
iSOFT Group Limited (ASX:ISF) has agreed contracts with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust for its strategic e-prescribing and medicines management (ePMA) solution and follows an agreement to extend its contract for iSOFT's PatientCentre patient administration system for a further five years. 
Using iMDsoft®'s Clinical Information System, MetaVision®, Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis (OLVG) hospital in Amsterdam now provides 24/7 tele-intensivist monitoring for intensive care patients at MC Zuiderzee in Lelystad. 
Enline plc, one of the UK's leading Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution providers, has announced it has become a Microsoft partner in the UK to deliver and sell Microsoft's health-specific IAM products. Microsoft Corp. announced its Vergence single sign-on and context management solution has been selected by Luton and Dunstable (L&D) Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to further its strategic approach to patient care, efficiency and improve the productivity of clinicians. 
Carestream Health's new premium SNP-M1 Screens, employing structured needle phosphor technology, are helping to improve diagnosis at the DIRANUK Mammography Screening Centre located at Bielefeld, Germany.