NHS Gloucestershire has reported on the success of its telehealth service following a 12-month evaluation, which found that 88% of patients receiving telehealth in Gloucestershire would recommend the service to their friends and families, whilst another 85% rated the service as either excellent or good. 
Erasmus MC is the first hospital in the Netherlands to switch to digital for their experimental laboratory analysis of cell and tissue samples using a digital pathology system from Philips. This switch to digital is an important step in tumor research and ultimately aims to speed up and improve the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other diseases. 
Advanced Health & Care (Advanced), in partnership with Medway Community Healthcare is a finalist in the 'Nursing in the Community' category of the Nursing Times Awards 2012. The winner will be announced during an awards ceremony at London's Hilton Hotel, Park Lane on 31 October 2012. Advanced Health & Care (Advanced), in partnership with Medway Community Healthcare, has been named a finalist in the 'Best use of mobile technology' category of the E-Health Insider (EHI) Awards 2012. This announcement follows two rounds of judging, with only the top six from the first round making it through to the final and deciding round. 
Agfa HealthCare announces that it will demonstrate its cardiovascular IT solutions at the 2012 Congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in Munich. Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX cardiovascular solutions provide a patient-centric consolidation of all relevant cardiology procedures on a shared true enterprise platform, with a true clinical workflow mapping and in-depth clinical content, and with refined clinical tools. 
GE Healthcare launched a global competition on multiple social media platforms - Twitter, Facebook and Sina Weibo - to raise public awareness about cancer prevention. Over the next six weeks, GE Healthcare's "#GetFit" campaign will encourage people from all over the world to share their own health and fitness activities and what they are doing to help reduce their likelihood of developing cancer, a leading cause of death.