Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, announced that the first steps towards the comprehensive introduction of its ORBIS(TM) Clinical Information System (CIS) were successfully completed at the beginning of April at the Paracelsus hospital in Ruit and the district hospital in Plochingen. Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, today unveiled ORBIS(TM), its Hospital and Clinical Information System (HIS/CIS), for the first time in Canada at the e-Health Conference 2007 (Québec City, Québec, Canada from Sunday, May 27th to Wednesday, May 30th). The number one choice for Electronic Patient Records (EPR) in Europe, ORBIS offers a unique single database structure which integrates all administrative and clinical data. 
InterSystems Corporation announced it has acquired Australia-based TrakHealth. An application partner of InterSystems since 1991, TrakHealth develops and markets TrakCare, an enterprise-level web-based health information system deployed in 25 countries. TrakHealth will operate as an independent subsidiary of InterSystems, with its own sales force. 
Worldwide, five percent of all people over the age of 65 suffer from atrial fibrillation. While cardiac arrhythmia can be treated with medication, patients have to take it for the rest of their lives. Ablation therapy offers an alternative: myocardial cells in the left atrium are obliterated to interrupt the problematic pathway. However, every patient is different. For this reason, electro physiologists have to be able to discern the size and shape of the left ventricle in precise detail during the intervention. 
SQLI Groupe, the leading provider of identity management services in healthcare in France, and Initiate Systems, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise master person index (EMPI) software for organisations that want to create complete views of patient information from data dispersed across multiple facilities, today announced a strategic agreement in principle to introduce best of breed, industry-strength patient identification and matching solutions to the French healthcare market. 
CSW Group has signed an OEM agreement with Visbion Ltd, whereby Visbion's DICOM imaging technology will be incorporated into CSW's Case Notes product for Electronic Health Records and sold as its new Diagnostic Image Management and Diagnostic Image Viewer modules.