Siemens Healthcare presents the Artis zee Cockpit, a new workplace designed to significantly ease the tasks performed in the control room of radiology and cardiology interventional suites.

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces that it has signed 28 new customers' agreements in Germany for its leading healthcare IT solutions ORBIS, IMPAX and HYDMedia in the first quarter of 2010.

The Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for children has signed a deal to introduce the IMS MAXIMS Order Communications and Results Reporting solution. The contract means that staff will have an easy-to-use system through which they can order pathology and radiology tests, then review the results along with the original request.

iSOFT Group Limited, one of the world's largest healthcare information technology companies, has entered into a partnership with Gateway Computing Ltd to deliver an electronic document management solution (EDMS) to the NHS, called WinDIP Enterprise.

ETIAM has entered into a global distribution agreement with Agfa HealthCare for its medical integration solution: DICOM Izer. ETIAM's solutions allow for the capture and connectivity of multimedia data to the enterprise archive and Electronic Medical Records.

Toumaz, the leading provider of ultra-low power wireless infrastructure for body monitoring solutions, has been named as a 'Cool Vendor' by leading analyst firm Gartner, Inc. The 'Cool Vendors in Healthcare Providers 2010' report profiles five vendors worldwide who, in Gartner's assessment, exemplify innovative and potentially transformative solutions for global healthcare providers.

IMS MAXIMS, suppliers of software to the healthcare sector in the UK and Ireland, and Total Asset Finance, a specialist lease/finance business based in Warrington Cheshire, have combined their operations under a new holding company, Daresbury Services Group (DSG) which holds 100% of both IMS MAXIMS and TAF, each of whom will continue to trade independently.