"From the moment of birth, we take our place in the medical system. Sick or healthy - like it or not - we are part of it. Doesn't it make sense that we have some control over our role?"

iPLATO Healthcare announced its GP service for Smartphones - iPLATO mSite - is now available to all its NHS partners across the United Kingdom. Due to the widespread availably of Smartphones many of iPLATO's NHS partners have embraced this new channel for patient engagement.

Broomwell HealthWatch, the leading ECG telemedical service provider, has announced it has now completed over 161,000 successful ECG interpretations, in turn preventing around 144,000 referrals to hospitals or diagnostic centres since the service started in 2006.

Agfa HealthCare's top line was influenced by the adverse exchange rate conditions. Excluding these currency effects, revenue increased by 1.1 percent. In the Imaging segment, the volumes for traditional X-ray film products continued to decline.

The German private practice MRI, Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT Center Bremen Central ("MRT-, Nuklearmedizin- und PET/CT-Zentrum Bremen Mitte") has commissioned Siemens Healthcare to supply a Biograph mMR.

The Methodist Hospital Research Institute (Houston, Texas, USA) and Philips have collaborated to develop new imaging technology that could be used to help identify the start and cause of an infectious disease epidemic.

The Germano de Sousa Group in Portugal has recently equipped its laboratories with more than 30 Siemens core laboratory instruments to address managing the sheer volume of patients in the areas of chemistry, immunoassay, coagulation, microbiology, molecular, and blood gas testing.