By Shane Tickell, CEO, IMS MAXIMS.
I am a CEO of a health technology company and I make mistakes, probably everyday. As the leader of an organisation, I am accountable for those mistakes, need to learn from them and, where possible, rectify them. In addition to that, every single member of my team has a specific set of responsibilities and when they make a mistake they too must recognise it and be accountable for that.

By Stuart Rankin, CEO of Cayder.
With the NHS in England needing to find between £15 and £20 billion in efficiency savings by 2014, there is clearly a very immediate case for helping ward staff work as productively as possible. In addition, there are concerns over shortages in frontline staff, including a potential shortfall of nearly 200,000 nurses, reported by Nursing Times back in February this year.

Tunstall Healthcare, the leading provider of telehealth and telecare solutions, has joined the Argenti Telehealthcare Partnership to deliver telecare services to vulnerable adults in Hampshire. The Argenti Telehealthcare Partnership is led by PA Consulting and comprises Tunstall Healthcare, O2, CareCalls, Medvivo and Magna Careline.

For the second time in one month, Carestream Health has again earned a top rating from medical professionals using a Carestream digital X-ray system as reported by KLAS, an independent research organisation that monitors healthcare vendor performance.

By Tim Dunn, General Manager, FairWarning.
A few weeks after the publication of the Caldicott2 recommendations and having had time to review them in detail, I can only applaud the outcome of the huge task undertaken by Dame Fiona and her team. Not only does the report mark a decisive step forward for patient privacy, it lays the foundation for building a secure and trusted digital healthcare system and the achievement of a paperless NHS by 2018.

By Colin Reid, Chief Executive of TotalMobile.
We are on a journey. The Department of Health's (DH) first mandate told the then NHS Commissioning Board where we needed to get to in order to deliver an improved national health service. The DH's 'Power of Information' strategy plotted the routes of healthcare providers, commissioners and technology suppliers to drive better heath, care and support.

Agfa HealthCare announces its successful participation in the IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) initiative's 13th European Connectathon in Istanbul, Turkey. The event tests the integration capabilities of hospital information systems (HIS), picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) and other healthcare solutions in a controlled environment.