The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending EUR 130 million to finance the research, development and innovation (RDI) projects in healthcare IT & imaging technology of the Agfa Group. These strategic projects for Agfa HealthCare aim to increase both the efficiency of healthcare and the quality of services for patients. 
COCIR issued an easy-to-use tool to help determine whether software is a medical device or not. Since the revision of the European Medical Device Directive, in force as of 21 March 2010, the definition for medical devices also includes software used for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. 
A new report by North Yorkshire County Council and St Cecilia's, an independent residential provider, and authored by the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Assistive Technology Development Manager, has highlighted the positive impact of telecare on people with dementia living in a residential setting. 
GE Healthcare announced a donation to the Vatican foundation "The Good Samaritan", created by Pope John Paul II and entrusted to Pontifical Council for Healthcare Workers, of ten Vscans, its latest ultrasound pocket-sized visualization tool. 
McKesson UK, the trusted healthcare IT solutions and services specialist, has been awarded 'IT Supplier of the Year' by The British Computer Society (BCS) & Computing UK IT Industry Awards 2010. 
At Medica 2010 in Dusseldorf, Microsoft's HealthVault team, represented by Jens Dommel, Head of HealthVault, Western Europe at The Microsoft Health Solutions Group, announced the launch in Germany of Assignio, a health platform based on the HealthVault Microsoft technology. 
CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced that the county of Blekinge in Sweden is the first customer outside Denmark for its LABKA II Laboratory Information System. After going live in late October, the system will be used to support the Karlskrona and Karlshamn hospitals within the Swedish province administrative county, and provide healthcare professionals with a more efficient, safer laboratory information service.