The Golden Jubilee National Hospital, which is part of the NHS National Waiting Times Centre, has purchased WinScribe and Voice Technologies' WinVoicePro software through use of the negotiated prices under the National Framework for Scotland for Digital Dictation and Speech Recognition to boost efficiency and further reduce patient waiting times.

TICBioMed is a cooperation platform for technology firms, health organisations, universities and other stakeholders involved in technological innovation applied to medicine, healthcare and biology in Murcia Region (Southeast Spain).

Clinicians can now access Map of Medicine pathways quickly and more easily, without having to remember a username and password. Login-free access to England and Wales national pathways is available through NHS Evidence search results.

By Renzo Taal, Director of Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences EMEA.
Since the launch of the Community eHealth Action Plan in 2004, the European Commission has encouraged member countries to move from paper-based to electronic medical records (EMRs).

InterSystems Corporation announced a strategic expansion in the Italian healthcare technology market with the acquisition of Prosa srl, a part of Gruppo Sistema SpA.

A new web-based electronic patient records system is being swiftly introduced at a leading cancer centre thanks to an extension of its contract with IMS MAXIMS. The agreement follows a full options appraisal in which Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology NHS Foundation Trust (CCO) measured IMS against other commercially available alternatives and against the nationally-funded programme.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a Medway maternity information system from System C Healthcare. It marks the 50th deployment of System C's Medway suite of hospital systems.