Siemens Healthcare has announced the availability of syngo.share, a unified, patient-centric clinical image sharing system. syngo.share empowers hospitals to efficiently manage and share clinical imaging data, including many non-DICOM formats, across multiple specialities such as Radiology, Endoscopy, Pathology and Dermatology. 
For the first time, not just individual facilities, but entire 'networks of networks' such as hospital chains or healthcare regions, can be networked based on universally recognized standards. IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) has designated the profiles XCPD (Cross-Community Patient Discovery) and XCA (Cross-Community Access) for data sharing across community boundaries. 
Agfa HealthCare announces that the Foundation of the "Cellitinnen zur hl. Maria" (Cellites of St. Mary) in Germany is extending its use of Agfa HealthCare's ORBIS hospital and radiology information system (HIS/RIS) across its sites. Agfa HealthCare announces that the St. Vincenz Hospital in Limburg, Germany, is replacing its existing hospital information system (HIS) with Agfa HealthCare's ORBIS. In addition, the company's HYDMedia document management system (DMS) will replace the existing digital archive. 
iSOFT Group Limited (ASX: ISF) has entered into a Scheme Implementation Agreement with CSC Computer Sciences Australia Holdings Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Computer Sciences Corporation ("CSC") for the proposed acquisition by CSC of all the ordinary issued shares in iSOFT(1). 
GE Healthcare announced steps to more effectively bring its world-class technology and domain expertise to bear while strengthening its ability to help its customers solve some of the healthcare industry's toughest problems - lowering costs while improving access to quality patient care. 
CSC (NYSE: CSC) has signed an agreement to acquire all of the outstanding equity of iSOFT Group Limited (ASX: ISF), one of the world's largest providers of advanced healthcare IT solutions, by way of a court-approved scheme of arrangement.