Agfa HealthCare's revenue decreased 2.8 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2008. Excluding currency effects, revenue increased slightly by 0.3 percent. The fourth quarter traditionally is Agfa HealthCare's strongest quarter of the year.

System C Healthcare, Microsoft®, Orion Health and Liquidlogic have joined forces to produce the first health and social care link under NHS Connecting for Health's (CfH) new standards for systems integration.

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.