To build on its burgeoning success in Europe and the Middle East, Orion Health, New Zealand's largest software exporter and global leader in eHealth technology, has announced the official opening of its new Turkish office, that is planned to service the whole Eurasia Region. 
A pleasant atmosphere in medical establishments is no longer seen as a "nice to have". Hospital management and doctors' practices are increasingly realizing that an optimized healing environment positively affects people's psychological and physiological condition and can improve the quality of medical care. At MEDICA, Philips is demonstrating what form this 'healing environment' could take, for example with the next stage in the development of its existing HealWell solution. 
Asklepios Kliniken Verwaltungsgesellschaft (AKV), which represents more than 50% of the turnover of the Asklepios group, the largest private hospital group in Germany, has chosen Agfa HealthCare's ORBIS as the standard hospital information system (HIS) for 43 clinics. In addition, all 43 clinics will use ORBIS RIS as their radiology information system of choice. The implementation of the project will start in 2014.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) is working with the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to create the world's largest and most comprehensive clinical dataset on cancer patients by building cancer registries in developing nations. The effort will begin in Sub-Saharan Africa, where less than 1% of the region's population is covered by a cancer registry.