GE Healthcare IT, a leading provider of health information technologies, announced its eHealth Community Desktop, an open standards framework for delivering clinical applications built on top of a connected healthcare community.

InterSystems, the global leader in software for connected healthcare, today announced that Spectrum Health has launched a new smartphone app that provides fast, easy access to personal health information via the healthcare provider's MySpectrum™ Web-based patient portal.

iSOFT Group Limited (ASX:ISF) said that the group of seven NHS trusts in England, known as the iSOFT 7, will extend their agreements for patient and clinical management systems for five years, in deals totalling £12.6 million.

Manor Way Health Centre (Dr Bassett & Partners) has selected a multimedia digital display system from the healthcare display technology specialist, Jayex, to visually educate and communicate to waiting patients.

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) will allocate EUR 2 billion for investments in Green Innovation by 2015 to accelerate sustainable business across the company's three sectors.

The Board of Directors of Agfa-Gevaert has accepted the recommendation from CEO Christian Reinaudo to appoint Luc Thijs as President of the Agfa HealthCare business group and member of the Group's Executive Committee, effective April 1, 2011.

Secure, stable business administration and prescription management will be the result when Swedish pharmacy Group Apoteket AB orders a new business system from IT services company Tieto.