GE Healthcare Launches Social Media Driven Cancer Awareness and Prevention Campaign
GE Healthcare launched a global competition on multiple social media platforms - Twitter, Facebook and Sina Weibo - to raise public awareness about cancer prevention. Over the next six weeks, GE Healthcare's "#GetFit" campaign will encourage people from all over the world to share their own health and fitness activities and what they are doing to help reduce their likelihood of developing cancer, a leading cause of death. 
Tunstall Healthcare, the Yorkshire-based world leading provider of telehealth and telecare, has launched its next-generation telecare solution, Lifeline Vi. The new solution builds on the success of Tunstall's market-leading Lifeline range - which has sold over two million units globally in the last five years - and enables providers to support a wide range of care requirements in their local communities. 
Agfa HealthCare's second quarter revenue increased by 3.4 percent versus the second quarter of 2011. In IT, both the Imaging IT and the Enterprise IT segments reported strong revenue growth. In the Imaging segment, the situation on the traditional X-ray film market started to normalize. 
To support its vision of beating cancer in the United Kingdom, Cancer Research UK, the world's largest not-for-profit cancer research organization, will be working with Oracle Health Sciences Translational Research Center as the foundation for a new analytical environment that will help the charity combine the genetic and clinical data from its Stratified Medicine Programme. 
The Helene Elass Center (Denmark) along with Commentor is building a programme called Mitti Kinect to help children diagnosed with cerebral palsy get the consistent help they need to develop their motor skills. Cerebral palsy is a neurological condition which impairs the motor skills and causes issues with physical movement. 
InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected care, announced that Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust is the first to Go-Live using InterSystems HealthShare Spine Mini Services Provider, after the service was accredited as part of NHS Connecting for Health's Interoperability Toolkit (ITK 2.0) initiative. 
South Karelia Central Hospital (Finland) has introduced a self-registration system for its customers. The solution improves customer service and privacy protection and frees up resources for direct patient care.