GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), and global eHealth specialist InterComponentWare, Inc. (ICW), have signed a strategic agreement to integrate and co-develop their health information exchange (HIE) solutions.

The Fundación Andaluza de Servicios Sociales (FASS) of the Junta de Andalucía has announced its 100,000th telecare deployment in Spain, helping to increase independence and improve quality of life for service users by enabling them to receive the care and support they need in their own homes.

iSOFT Group Limited (ASX: ISF) - Australia's largest listed health information technology company today announced that Christophorus-Kliniken will become the sixth early adopter of iSOFT’s LORENZO next-generation solution in Germany as part of an agreement to upgrade hospital information systems (HIS) at its three hospitals in the Coesfeld district of North Rhine-Westphalia.

This blog is a complementary space to the Microsoft Health Blog and will try exploring, informing, debating and discussing the many issues and opportunities surrounding the adoption and implementation of the latest information technology solutions in healthcare in EMEA region. Microsoft EMEA Health Blog looks forward to sharing experiences and viewpoints in healthcare especially in EMEA and across the world.

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that the Centre Hospitalier du Mans in France has selected Agfa HealthCare's leading Hospital and Clinical Information System (HIS/CIS) ORBIS(TM) to support the implementation of a full Electronic Patient Record (EPR) solution.

Being venturesome in business can pay off. And the Somatom Definition, the world's first CT scanner with two X-ray tubes, has the sales figures to prove it. Since its market launch at the end of 2005, this system has already been installed over 500 times in leading clinics throughout the world. This proves that dual-source technology is in demand not only in research, but in routine diagnostics as well.

At the SmarterCities forum, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the opening of its first European Analytics Solution Center in Berlin, initially designed to serve public sector clients, universities and healthcare organizations. The new center is the first step, in a recently announced global network that addresses the emerging market for advanced analytics capabilities, which will help clients build smarter business systems and drive improved decision-making.