Norway's role as world leader in new health technology, is the background for HP opening their European centre of health technology in Bryn, Oslo. The centre is equipped like a small hospital, complete with a patient room, watch room and an adjacent demonstration room. 
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, and Meridian Technique Ltd. have signed an agreement to integrate Meridian's leading orthopaedic digital planning solution, OrthoView(TM), into Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX(TM) for Orthopaedics solution. 
A new agreement was announced between Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: CLXS), a leading developer of semantic knowledge discovery software and expert profiles, and JISC Collections for an online resource, which aims to encourage greater collaboration and expand scientific knowledge amongst the biomedical research community in the UK. 
IRIS, the organizational network of Brussels' 5 public hospitals, and dbMotion announced the agreement for a major project to provide an interoperability platform for medical information sharing to the Brussels region. 
At the conclusion of a Europe-wide call for tender, AOK PLUS commissioned eHealth specialist InterComponentWare AG (ICW) to implement a telemedical system to care for serious chronic heart failure cases in the German state of Saxony. ICW Care and Disease Manager will be used as the basis of this system. 
IBM (NYSE: IBM) released the latest in its series of "Healthcare 2015" vision statements, looking forward to redefine healthcare delivery models of the future and the competencies that will be required from them. In the study, entitled, Healthcare 2015 and care delivery: 
Picis, the leading provider of information systems for the high-acuity areas of hospitals, has announced that the Madrid Health Ministry has chosen Picis Anesthesia Manager, PACU Manager and Critical Care Manager, part of the CareSuite® family of high-acuity solutions, to automate the patient care process in the Intensive Care Units (ICUs), operating rooms (ORs) and recovery rooms of the regions seven new hospitals.