Agfa HealthCare announces that its IMPAX Agility solution, a next generation medical imaging platform that truly combines workflow, image management, reporting, and clinical applications into one seamless solution, has now been successfully launched in multiple countries around the globe. In over 125 hospitals, it is being installed or has gone live. 
Following a successful pilot programme to automate their paper-based pre-operative assessment process within the orthopaedic outpatient clinic, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) has signed a five year contract with Caradigm to deploy its solutions trust-wide. The pilot used the Caradigm Intelligence Platform and self-service kiosks to collect pre-op assessment data from clinicians and patients. 
An urgent care centre (UCC) in a deprived part of east London is meeting national targets to prevent admissions to A&E, with the help of state-of-the-art technology from EMIS. The centre, attached to the A&E department at Newham Hospital, part of East London NHS Foundation Trust, is using the company's transformational clinical system EMIS Web to care for over 70,000 patients a year and prevent avoidable A&E admissions. 
By Angela White, Medical Director, IMS MAXIMS.
Carestream will showcase upgrades to its healthcare IT portfolio at HIMSS 2014 as works in progress that include a new CARESTREAM Vue PACS and Vue for Vendor Neutral Archive with a Windows environment and 64-bit Intel® Xeon servers that can help enhance performance while reducing costs.