At a COCIR' event in Brussels yesterday on 'Digital Hospitals: Healthcare transformation from electronic patient records to fully connected hospitals', speakers from the European Commission, OECD, hospitals and industry came together to discuss how to maximise the use of health ICT to drive efficiency in hospitals while maintaining a highest level of quality and safety. 
TotalMobile Ltd has chosen HC2013 to announce that social enterprise and NHS provider Bristol Community Health will begin a pilot this spring of the TotalMobile™ App Platform, a mobile workflow management solution which allows healthcare professionals to spend less time on administration and travel, and more with patients. Mobile solution provider TotalMobile Ltd will announce the launch of their TotalMobile App Platform - a workflow management solution into the UK healthcare market at HC2013 (16th - 17th April, ICC Birmingham) by presenting the benefits of adopting a mobile working strategy. Delegates will be able to experience live demonstrations on stand 18 and see how it supports healthcare professionals working on mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets to update patient information and record medical tasks whilst on location. 
By Kurt Long, CEO of FairWarning
iMDsoft®, a leader in clinical information systems, announced the opening of a new office with an expanded workforce in Düsseldorf, demonstrating their firm commitment to the European market. The local team will now include a German-based professional services team providing support 24/7. 
The CARESTREAM DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray System earned the top rating in MD Buyline's First Quarter 2013 User Satisfaction Report for portable radiographic systems. Users gave the DRX-Revolution the highest rating in all six categories in the report, which included three other suppliers. 
Caradigm, a Microsoft and GE Healthcare company, and Orion Health, a global leader in eHealth technology and interoperability, today announced they have expanded their alliance agreement to integrate Orion Health's market-leading Electronic Health Records (EHR) solution with the Caradigm Intelligence Platform (CIP) and ecosystem of applications, which will allow healthcare communities to more rapidly address today's most complex challenges - including new models of care delivery and payment, population health management and patient engagement - while also helping to reduce costs and increase revenue.