The first results from the Whole System Demonstrator (WSD) programme have proven definitively the effectiveness of telehealth in improving services and outcomes for patients with long-term conditions, according to Tunstall. 
The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is to roll-out iSOFT-developed electronic whiteboards to 97 wards across its five hospitals before the end March 2012, following a pilot on eight wards that is already starting to show improvements in efficiency and patient safety. 
InterSystems announced that Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have implemented InterSystems Ensemble® as the foundation of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The Trust selected InterSystems Ensemble as its seamless platform for integration and the development of connectable applications to modernise its integration capability. 
Agfa HealthCare has signed an agreement with the Maastricht Universitair Medisch Centrum+ (University Medical Center - UMC+) in The Netherlands to install its IMPAX Radiology Information System/Picture Archiving and Communication System (RIS/PACS) and IMPAX for Nuclear Medicine. 
McKesson announced the successful deployment of its market-leading medical imaging solution at the first four of 35 hospitals in Ireland as part of an exclusive partnership with the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE). 
More than 160 institutes and hospitals from 43 countries on all continents had submitted over 600 images, captured on Siemens CT scanners using the lowest possible radiation dose. The seven winners, selected by an international jury of experts, hail from China, England, France, Ireland, Macau, Singapore and the USA.