Siemens Healthcare is expanding its portfolio for cancer therapy by partnering with IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc. (IMPAC) which includes an extension of its software distribution agreement to 2016 and adding the MOSAIQ software to its oncology portfolio. This partnership with IMPAC will afford Siemens customers access to IMPAC's latest innovative oncology information system (OIS) in addition to the radiation therapy systems from Siemens. 
Carestream Health launched a new web-based cardiology PACS that offers a single integrated platform for diagnosis, image review and reporting for echocardiography, cardiac catheterisation and nuclear cardiology procedures as well as electrocardiogram management. Carestream Health announced a five-year eHealth Managed Services (eMS) agreement with Maasstad Ziekenhuis in Rotterdam, the Netherlands for remote storage of DICOM and non-DICOM data. Over 70 terabytes of legacy data will be migrated to the eMS datacenter, which will serve as a PACS neutral remote archive, with additional archiving of approximately 180,000 new studies generated annually by the Maasstad facility. 
The business group's sales decreased by 5.8 percent to 295 million Euro. Mainly in the USA and in certain European countries, the economic crisis is causing delays in the investments of care organizations in Computed Radiography (CR) equipment and Imaging IT. The market for X-ray film evolved in line with expectations. Agfa HealthCare was able to expand its market share for hardcopy film. Article of the Month!
Germany based company HIT.net presents the Hospital IT Network, a ground-breaking, ambitious and extensive European eHealth online network for vendors and users of IT products and services in the healthcare sector with more than 1,500 profiles of Healthcare IT (eHealth) vendors and products.
gematik, the Society for Telematic Applications of the Health Card mbH, has approved the ICW Healthcare Connector based on SINA for online use in the official health card test regions. This allows health insurance policy holders' data sets (name, insurance number, coverage and payment status, etc.) to be updated online on the electronic health card (eHC).