CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced the launch of its Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices with the mission of monitoring worldwide trends, conducting regional and multi-country studies, and evaluating emerging operational practices and technologies that have the potential to improve performance of healthcare industries around the world. 
Tunstall Healthcare has partnered with NHS Gloucestershire, the primary care trust for Gloucestershire, to implement a large-scale telehealth programme to support the management of long term conditions. 
InterSystems announced that InterSystems Ensemble® has been awarded full compliance on an additional nine Interoperability Toolkit (ITK) version 1.0.0 specification service bundles by the National Integration Centre and Assurance (NICA) Technology Office. 
Oracle announced that its portfolio of Oracle Health Sciences Cloud Applications will be powered by the next-generation Oracle® Health Sciences Cloud, a scalable and secure software-as-a-service delivery platform tailored for the specific requirements and regulations of the health sciences market. 
The Siemens sector Healthcare has developed the consulting model "Act on Radiology" to help improve workflows in radiology departments. Based on models for industry processes, an expert team from Siemens evaluates the maturity level of clinical processes in a hospital radiology department or radiology practice. Tunstall, the world's leading provider of telehealthcare solutions, has been named HealthInvestor's Telehealth/Telecare provider of the year at its 2011 awards ceremony, against stiff competition from five other shortlisted providers.