Agfa HealthCare, the leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, has installed the United Kingdom's first IMPAX 6.4 Picture Archiving and Communications System at the Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth in London.

Google announces an addition to Google Labs - the Public Data Explorer. The purpose of the new tool, Google says on the new lab's page, "The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate.

The eHealth landscape offers both opportunities and barriers to policy makers in the EU 27 member states which are not just about technical issues of interoperability and data security and confidentiality.

Essex County Council has reported on the success of its free Telecare Home Safety Service, which is enabling elderly people in Essex to live safely and independently in their own homes. The service, which has already benefitted over 2500 residents aged 80 and over in the last 10 months, is free to sign up to until the 31st of March 2010*.

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, has expanded its agreement with the Basque Healthcare Service's Osakidetza facilities in Spain to extend its IMPAX Picture and Archiving and Communications System (PACS) to a further 15 sites, in addition to the 28 facilities it currently serves.

BridgeHead Software, a leading developer of healthcare data management software, unveiled partial preliminary results of its Data Management Healthcheck 2010 survey, reporting that only 6.5% of respondents indicate cloud storage is currently the destination media for their organization's archived data.

Map of Medicine is now accessible from various health care locations in the Isle of Man, thanks to a new contract with System C Healthcare and the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS).