Kent Community Health NHS Trust (KCHT), one of the largest community service providers in the UK employing in the region of 5,400 staff, has selected Advanced Community, a sophisticated community healthcare system from Advanced Health & Care (Advanced). The contract will run for a minimum of three years. 
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust will be the first to implement the full suite of CSC's next-generation laboratory products to help meet the evolving demands and requirements of a modern pathology service. Continuing a 20-year partnership, the trust has agreed a five-year extension of its current contract for CSC's laboratory information system, and to adopting new modules as they become available. 
Readers of Redacción Médica, a leading Spanish medical news journal for healthcare professionals, voted Carestream one of 10 leading healthcare companies in Spain during 2012. It is the second consecutive year that Carestream has been recognized for this accolade, which notes the company's continued commitment to introducing new technologies as a platform for improving the performance of medical professionals and enhancing patient care. 
Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) has launched "Fabric of Africa" - a collaborative campaign to drive public-private partnerships and to improve healthcare access across the continent. The main intention of the campaign is to develop meaningful partnerships with local and international stakeholders to improve healthcare delivery in the areas of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), maternal and child health, and healthcare infrastructure, delivery and clinical training. 
GPs have entered a new era of mobile working with the rollout of software that enables them to carry out patient consultations on any tablet device. After successful pilots with a number of early adopters, the UK's leading GP software provider EMIS has begun making its mobile solution available to GP practices using the company's EMIS Web healthcare system. Carestream is extending its leadership in the wireless digital radiography market by demonstrating a smaller-format 25 cm x 30 cm CARESTREAM DRX 2530C Detector* as a work in progress. The new cesium iodide detector is designed to offer high efficiency for dose sensitive paediatric, orthopaedic and general radiology exams. Carestream will show its new DRYVIEW 5950 Laser Imaging System that produces 508 pixels-per-inch output for general radiology and mammography images at ECR 2013. The new imager can support efficient printing and time-saving film cartridges that can benefit healthcare providers of all sizes across the globe.