IMS MAXIMS has announced the appointment of Angela White as the company's first ever medical director. The creation of the new post reflects IMS MAXIMS commitment to ensure that its solutions are developed in a way that supports clinicians and healthcare professionals' needs and requirements. 
Russian Federal Scientific-Clinical Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology named after Dmitry Rogachev, has signed a contract with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to implement one of IBM's new PureFlex integrated systems. The solution, which is the first of its kind to be deployed in Russia, will help the research institute to improve patient care and draw insight from its clinical data. 
Carestream was awarded 43 patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2012 for innovations in radiology imaging, healthcare IT, dental imaging and other areas, capping another strong year for technology development across its businesses. 
Agfa HealthCare announced that the German hospital group Diakonische Dienste Hannover (DDH) has selected the company's ORBIS Radiology Information System (RIS) and ORBIS Hospital Information System (HIS) solutions to unify its IT infrastructure. They will replace the existing HIS and RIS at the hospital's five sites. 
Swedish pharmaceutical company Apoteket AB is extending its contract with Tieto for operation, application management and workstation solutions. The contract is valid for three years with an option of a further two years. The order value will amount to approximately EUR 43 million during the three years. At ECR2013 Carestream will showcase a raft of new solutions designed to help radiology professionals improve patient care. These include a new portal that allows patients to electronically access and manage their X-ray exams; new lesion management tools that can help enhance accuracy in assessing changes in cancerous lesions and as a works-in-progress, a smaller-format digital radiography detector that provides high-quality, dose-sensitive X-ray images for paediatric, orthopaedic and general radiology exams.