Leading healthcare software provider, Advanced Health & Care (Advanced), has been named as an approved supplier on the NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) Healthcare Clinical Information Systems framework. The new framework, which has been divided into six lots, is valued at up to £1.25 billion. 
EMIS, the UK leader in clinical IT systems for GPs and commissioners, is to enable direct data sharing with all other GP systems - supporting new ways of working in the NHS. Following an arrangement with TPP to enable direct interoperability between their clinical systems - free of charge - EMIS is preparing to sign an agreement with INPS and Microtest to offer similar functionality. 
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) has announced the appointment of Mr. Robert Cascella to lead Philips' multi-billion euro cluster of Imaging businesses. These businesses capitalize on the rapidly transforming global healthcare industry, in particular in the areas of integrated diagnostic imaging and image-guided minimally invasive therapy solutions. 
Carestream is partnering with leading orthopaedic and sports medicine specialists to develop a new three-dimensional medical imaging system (investigational - not available for commercial sale) for capturing images of patient extremities (knees, legs, feet, arms and hands). 
Apple® has announced ResearchKit™, an open source software framework designed for medical and health research, helping doctors and scientists gather data more frequently and more accurately from participants using iPhone® apps. Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) has entered into a multi-year development agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V. (Janssen). The collaboration aims to develop a new handheld blood test to provide doctors with a novel tool to improve the care of patients with neuropsychiatric disorders.