Agfa HealthCare has signed an agreement with Meander Medical Center in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, to upgrade the hospital's existing IMPAX Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and to implement both Agfa HealthCare's Radiology Information System (RIS) and Nuclear Information System (NIS), with speech recognition.

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) released its "Meaningful Innovation Index", during its participation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The Meaningful Innovation Index is a 5000-person, multi-country survey looking at people's needs, attitudes and expectations regarding innovation. Based on responses from five key markets(1), the survey shows that even with the recent advances in technology, there is huge appetite for innovations that will make a real difference in people's everyday lives.

Headline sponsor, Harris Healthcare is getting behind the government's commitment to actively support better joint working and integrated care across the NHS at this year's Commissioning Show. The show's headline sponsors, will use the conference and exhibition being held at the Excel, London on 12th and 13th June 2013,

Agfa HealthCare has signed a 5-year contract with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) to replace the hospital's current picture archiving and communication system (PACS), with Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX solution.

BridgeHead Software has announced that UPMC Beacon Hospital, the South Dublin based hospital providing world-care services, has implemented its integrated backup solution to provide complete protection for all of the data within its MEDITECH Health Care Information System (HCIS).

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has announced its intention to implement CSC's Lorenzo EPR as part of a new agreement between the company and the Department of Health. Lorenzo will help the Trust to eliminate paper records, facilitate agile working, support collaborative working and share information more effectively between clinical staff.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced new social business software to help enterprise clients collaborate easily and securely in the cloud using the broadest range of mobile devices. The new IBM SmartCloud services include new social networking features and the release of IBM SmartCloud Docs, a cloud-based office productivity suite, which allows users to simultaneously collaborate on word processing, spreadsheet and presentation documents to improve productivity.