CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced that the county of Blekinge in Sweden is the first customer outside Denmark for its LABKA II Laboratory Information System. After going live in late October, the system will be used to support the Karlskrona and Karlshamn hospitals within the Swedish province administrative county, and provide healthcare professionals with a more efficient, safer laboratory information service. 
Tunstall Healthcare, the leading provider of telecare and telehealth solutions, is exhibiting its advanced telehealthcare solutions at this year's NHS Alliance Annual Conference and Exhibition. 
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) announced its partnership with the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD), on the occasion of World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Day. 
The Care Services Minister has announced the NHS will get £400 million to give carers like the spouses, parents and children of chronically ill patients a break - and telehealth can help. As World COPD Day dawns, a UK telehealth expert has underlined the importance of embracing technology to improve the nation's health. Jeremy Cummin, the executive chairman of Telehealth Solutions, said there is mounting evidence to support the benefits of telehealth technology but adoption is still not as widespread as it could be. 
For more than ten years ICW has been developing innovative solutions for the healthcare market. Now, under the slogan "connect. manage. personalize," ICW has brought together its most successful technologies and products to create a new, powerful ICW eHealth Platform. 
Siemens Healthcare has chosen "Sustainable healthcare. More than just green" as its slogan for Medica 2010 and at this year's trade fair in Düsseldorf will be presenting solutions that enable hospitals to achieve both their economic and their environmental goals while at the same time increasing the quality of patient care.