"Has Mum had a visit from the home-help today, and how is she really doing?" These are questions asked every day by thousands of concerned relatives. Thanks to the Care diary e-service, the elderly and their close family can monitor the treatment and care provided via the City of Stockholm's website.

JAC, the UK's leading medicine management systems specialist, has won a contract with Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust (SUHT) to undertake a trust-wide roll out of its Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system.

Following the recent UK Parliament Public Accounts Committee hearing and NAO (National Audit Office) Report, commenting Shane Tickell, CEO of UK clinical IT company IMS MAXIMS, said:

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) and Microsoft are working in partnership to develop a personal online health record for people using mental health services.

CSC (NYSE: CSC) - a leading international IT supplier - is expanding its healthcare division in Eastern Europe to respond to the increasing need of governments in the region to modernise their healthcare IT infrastructure.

By Mr. Tom Mulhern, Founder of healthcare business intelligence solutions provider, Ardentia.
The emergence of GP consortia as the purchasers of most NHS treatment should mean that quality of care is scrutinised more closely than ever before. But from what we have seen so far, it is not a foregone conclusion that this will happen.

Agfa HealthCare announces that the Centre Hospitalier Alès-Cévennes (CH Alès) and the Centre Hospitalier Jean Monnet in Epinal (CH Jean Monnet), both in France, are extending their existing Agfa HealthCare solutions with an electronic archiving solution.