Agfa HealthCare announces that it has been selected as one of the approved suppliers in the NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) Healthcare Clinical Information Systems Framework. This four-year, £1.25 billion framework - which can be extended by an additional two years - speeds up and simplifies the healthcare IT systems tender process for healthcare providers. 
ARCHIMEDICX, that is changing the face of healthcare, has announced the launching of its first intelligent and objective global hospital search engine. ARCHIMEDICX's unique, patient-centric approach empowers healthcare consumers worldwide to search, in nine popular languages, for the most suitable hospital across the globe for their medical condition and procedure, to seek better, faster, and cheaper treatment tailored to their specific needs (budget, waiting time, language, food, etc). 
BridgeHead Software, a leader in healthcare data management, has announced a partnership with Oblak, the specialist cloud and IT services provider and EMC, the data storage specialist. Together the three companies will offer hospitals in Bulgaria and, in the near term, the rest of the Balkans, an alternative option to expensive PACS storage upgrades by assisting with the long-term storage, protection and sharing of radiology images - all in the cloud. 
Europe's leading Network in the field of digital health is expanding into the DACH region. The Catalyst programme, hosted and driven by digital health specialists D Health, is the first international network covering digital health in the German-speaking countries and will be supported by D Health's new office opening in Berlin in September 2015. 
Two leading NHS organisations have come together to launch a new joint vision that will help the health service harness the power of data and technology and address some of the most pressing challenges facing the NHS. 
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) has begun a digital revolution to improve its mental health services. The Trust has successfully gone live with 'Carenotes', a leading Electronic Patient Record system (EPR) from Advanced Health & Care (Advanced). This next generation EPR solution went live on 8th September meeting ambitious delivery targets following completion of a focussed two-year project. 
Carestream is expanding into new imaging modalities, including cone beam CT, and key advances were demonstrated at the recent British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) Annual Congress conference held in Liverpool, UK, where a conceptual scale model of cone beam CT was on display.