dbMotion to Extend Franche-Comté Regional Interoperability Platform
dbMotion Ltd., a premier provider of medical information integration software that facilitates interoperability and health information exchange (HIE), announced that it has been selected to provide an interoperability platform that will extend the existing Franche-Comté regional health information exchange which is based upon the region's Shared Medical Record system, known as the DMP-fc ("Dossier Médical Partagé de Franche-Comté"). 
ETIAM Corp. a leading medical imaging software publisher presents a new version of its automated CD and DVD distribution system for medical images. Open LiteBox, the leading application for importing external DICOM media to PACS now provides the fastest and most cost-effective mean to create and label DICOM CDs and DVDs automatically. 
CSW has been shortlisted as a finalist for the prestigious British Computer Society (BCS) IT Awards in the categories 'SME Organisation of the Year' and 'Supplier Organisation of the Year'. The awards embrace IT innovation and business achievements combined with organisational excellence and are recognised as a leading hallmark of success in the IT industry in the UK. 
In July 2007, HIMSS EMEA launched its first Health IT Community forum on XING, a unique online platform with 1.5 million members in over 190 countries networking in at least 16 different languages. This step into the online networking world is part of the HIMSS EMEA mission of leading change in the healthcare information and management systems field through knowledge sharing, advocacy, collaboration, innovation and community affiliations. 
iSOFT has won contracts totalling £1m for a technology refresh of laboratory information systems at nine NHS trusts in Wales. The deal includes iSOFT's latest i.Laboratory TP application providing an InterSystems Caché environment for better performance and greater resilience. It also ensures that all NHS trusts in Wales are running the same version of i.Laboratory TP as two other trusts upgraded earlier this year.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) researchers unveiled a prototype visualization software that allows doctors to interact with medical data the same way they interact with their patients: by looking at the human body. Created at IBM's Zurich Research Lab, the technology uses an avatar - a 3D representation of the human body - to allow doctors to visualize patient medical records in an entirely new way.