iPLATO Healthcare, a UK leader in cloud based mHealth and Analytics, has launched a new feature which allows patients to automatically cancel GP appointments via their mobile phone without intervention by reception staff at the practice. This new iPLATO feature - available for Enterprise and Pro users - will further reduce the practice workload related to appointment management and improve patient access to GP services. 
InterComponentWare AG (ICW) has announced that its ICW Forms Solution for EMR 1.0 has achieved SAP certification as Mobile App. The SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC) has certified that ICW Forms Solution for EMR 1.0 integrates with SAP® EMR Unwired through SAP NetWeaver® Gateway. 
Carl Holst, Chairman and CEO of the Danish Regions, and Niels Soelberg, CEO Microsoft Denmark, signed an agreement to examine how new technologies and solutions can provide benefits in the future of hospital operation. 
The Russian Cardiology Research and Production Complex and Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announced the opening of an innovative new hybrid operating room equipped with advanced live image guidance solutions to guide minimally-invasive cardiovascular and endovascular procedures. This new hybrid operating room, which also features other Philips technology innovations, is the first of its kind in Russia. 
Agfa HealthCare has won a competitive tender by the Ministry of Health in Kazakhstan to digitize mammography services in the nation's public hospitals. Under the contract, signed in July 2013, 63 CR 30-Xm computed radiography (CR) systems will be installed in hospitals of various sizes around the country together with Agfa HealthCare's DRYSTAR AXYS, a high resolution, high throughput, dual media size, dry hardcopy imager optimized for digital mammography. 
By Shane Tickell, CEO, IMS MAXIMS.