More than 1,200 GPs and practice managers from 704 practices flocked to a 'sell-out' series of roadshows at 10 venues from Brighton to Bolton for a 'hands-on' demonstration of EMIS Web, the next generation system from leading healthcare software provider EMIS. 
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has signed a multi-year contract with Carestream Health to install the latest version CARESTREAM RIS across its two sites located in Chelsea, Central London and Sutton in Surrey, South London. 
Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) and SpineMark Corporation, a leader in developing specialized centers for spine care, announced a long-term partnership to build centers for spine care globally. The first centers for spine care resulting from this agreement will be established in the Netherlands, Spain and Turkey in the first quarter of 2011. 
The Region of Skåne, Sweden, announced in the autumn of 2008 a tender for a patient record system to the primary- and outpatient care institutions in the region. The tender covered the entire "Hälsoval Skåne" that today consist of about 130 healthcare centers, 140 child healthcare centers and some 130 centers working with rehabilitation. Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and Dako, a Danish company specializing in tissue-based cancer diagnostics, have signed an agreement to integrate a selection of Dako's image analysis applications into Philips' future digital pathology solutions. 
InterSystems announce that NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS) has selected InterSystems as its National Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) partner.