IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced new software to help organizations bring intelligence to the products, systems and applications people use everyday. From creation to development and delivery, the new software simplifies the entire process enabling organizations to reduce costs, address compliance and regulatory requirements and ultimately get innovative products to market quickly. 
Agfa HealthCare announces it has won a project of 115 CR 30-X computed radiography (CR) systems with DRYSTAR 5300 direct digital imagers in Uzbekistan. The tender for the Ministry of Health (MOH) is financed by the World Bank. Agfa HealthCare received the official tender award in July, and final contract approval in early November. 
The Centre Hospitalier de Valenciennes won an award for the digitisation of its care services with the Cerner Millennium® solution portfolio. The Centre Hospitalier de Valenciennes is the second French organisation to be recognised by HIMSS Analytics Europe for the quality of its information system, six months after the Centre Hospitalier de Belfort-Montbéliard, the first French site to receive the certification. 
Learn how healthcare apps could look in the near future with this demonstration app called Rounds, allowing doctors and nurses to use tablets to connect with each other and access medical records from wherever they're working. Along with limited cable television options, two-inch-thick stacks of paper affixed to messy clipboards have long been a feature of large hospitals in the developed world. Now one Dutch hospital has come up with a way to stem the tide of paper-based medical records - and make some other welcome improvements to the patient experience along the way.