The partnership between medical training organisation Forcomed in France and Carestream Health is taking on a new dimension. After training several thousand radiologists in digital mammography on Carestream diagnostic workstations, Forcomed is launching an innovative Internet e-Learning training programme for digital mammography. 
Agfa HealthCare has successfully implemented its DX-D 600 Direct Radiography (DR) system at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust (WWL), creating a new DR room at the Leigh Infirmary. Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute trust serving the 318,000 population in the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. 
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) announced the launch of its Healthcare Transformation Services Business, which in collaboration with healthcare service providers, will offer consulting services to improve the operational and financial performance of hospitals and health systems, and improve patient outcomes across the continuum of care from diagnosis to treatment and after care at home. Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) and its consortium partners announced the launch of the Advancing Care Coordination and Telehealth Deployment (ACT) program. The Philips-led ACT program is the first to explore the organizational and structural processes needed to successfully implement care coordination and telehealth (CC&TH) services on a large scale. 
HIMSS Europe and AVISA (the Valencia Association of Health Informatics) have signed a collaboration agreement with which HIMSS reaffirms its strong commitment to Spain, being the leading country in Europe in terms of its adoption and use of electronic medical records.