Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust recouped its investment in patient kiosks from iSOFT, a CSC company, in under four months, after the system helped it meet a smoking cessation referral target and so secure an extra £120,000 in funding from South East Coast Strategic Health Authority. 
Riversmead Housing Association has invested in a grouped housing communications system from leading provider of telehealthcare solutions, Tunstall, to help support its new flexicare housing scheme, at Bircherley Court in Hertford. 
Excluding currency effects, Agfa HealthCare's third quarter revenue decreased 4.6 percent. In the Imaging segment, the growth for Computed Radiography (CR) and Direct Radiography (DR) was counterbalanced by the decline for traditional X-ray film products. 
Tieto's hospital information system iMedOne now offers the Manchester Triage System as an integral part of the solution. The Manchester Triage System is a tool for categorizing the priority of patients who need critical emergency treatment. The Tieto solution offers doctors and nurses faster access to all critical patient data and provides standardized procedures for the initial assessment of patients in need of urgent care. 
InterComponentWare AG (ICW) will be presenting the newest improvements to its standards-based networking solutions at Medica 2011: ICW MPI, the proven Master Patient Index for unique patient identification across system boundaries, is now available in modular form to support use scenarios of different sizes. 
By Dr. med. Heike Unverhau, Head of eHealth, Just Software AG.