UZ Gent, the country's largest single campus hospital is installing the first Belgian example of a hospital-wide PACS. The CARESTREAM PACS solution will make UZ Gent the first hospital to truly engage all departments in one central image-enabled archive system.

EMIS Group plc (AIM: EMIS) and INPS, the UK's leading suppliers of healthcare software to GPs, announce that they have formed a 50:50 joint venture company named Healthcare Gateway Limited.

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, has been named category leader for single plate CR in the 2010 Best in KLAS Medical Equipment Report. Agfa HealthCare's CR 30-X single plate Computed Radiography (CR) digitizer is the No. 1 ranked CR product, according to KLAS, a research firm specializing in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors.

The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has streamlined its breast imaging process to deliver faster, more efficient reporting with full connectivity to the National Breast Screening Service (NBSS) system.

GE Healthcare demonstrated the newest addition to the Centricity® family of healthcare IT solutions, Centricity Advance. Centricity Advance is a true Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for small, independent clinical practices.

HIMSS has announced the formation of HIMSS Analytics Europe (HAE), a German-based company, to provide health care organizations, governments and information technology companies extensive data resources and services about the adoption and use of healthcare information technology in Europe.

AxSys Technology (AxSys), a provider of patient-centric clinical information solutions, plans to extend its reach across the UK market in response to the current shift in NHS strategies and UK Government healthcare policy initiatives.