Agfa HealthCare has signed a seven year contract extension with Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust. The extension runs until December 2018 and includes a full upgrade of their current Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) across the whole trust moving from Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX 5.3 to IMPAX 6.5. 
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest NHS Trust to select FairWarning® Privacy Breach Detection solution to monitor and protect patient privacy, joining a growing number of NHS organisations that are taking proactive steps to counter serious data breaches and the improper accessing of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). 
Carestream Health has completed the roll-out of its Vue Motion zero-footprint viewer at Spire Healthcare, the UK's second largest provider of private healthcare. As this independent viewer is PACS-agnostic, Spire consultants can now securely access PACS images across all of Spire's 37 locations via Apple iPad and other tablet devices irrespective of the fact that 27 hospitals operate Carestream RIS/PACS and 10 hospitals use Agfa RIS/PACS. 
Advanced Health & Care (Advanced), a leading provider of IT management systems for the health and care sectors, has been shortlisted in the 'Best use of mobile technology' category of the EHealth Insider (EHI) Awards 2012 in partnership with Medway Community Healthcare. This is the third year running that Advanced has been shortlisted in the EHI Awards. Carestream launched its new Vita XE CR Imaging System, which is now available for order worldwide. The tabletop computed radiography system produces diagnostic-quality images at a speed of 60+ plates per hour and is an ideal fit for smaller hospitals, imaging centres, clinics and private practices. 
St. Cecilia's, a residential home caring for people living with dementia, which uses telecare monitoring equipment from Tunstall Healthcare, has been short-listed for a national award for the positive impact of telecare on its elderly residents.