iSOFT Spain has won two contracts worth a total of €1.35 million with the public healthcare services of Andalusia and the Balearic Islands, with both customers extending their current agreements with the company. The Andalusian healthcare service (SAS) has renewed its contract for maintenance at 16 hospitals for another year in a deal worth €750,000.

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Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHI) announced that it will lead a new European Union (EU) funded research project called euHeart, which is aimed at improving the diagnosis, therapy planning and treatment of cardiovascular disease - one of the biggest causes of mortality in the western world.

'Think up and prototype the next big product in healthcare.' This was the challenge that Siemens recently set schools and colleges in the Surrey area close to its headquarters as part of the 'Siemens and Institution of Engineering and Technology Engineering in Healthcare Challenge.'

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) announced that five public services organizations leveraging SAP applications, including the City of Hagen, Germany; Coordinated Medical Service of Switzerland (KSD); Gauteng province of South Africa; the United States Postal Service (USPS) and the Thoraxklinik of University Hospital of Heidelberg, Germany, were recognized as Laureates by the Computerworld Honors Program.

Siemens has announced the creation of a new MR collaboration and scientific support team headed by Collaboration Manager, Patrick Revell and MR Scientist, Dr. Craig Buckley. The team will support the development of collaboration partnerships with UK based researchers to further clinical and methodological MR development.

Across France 37 privately owned medical facilities are utilising Hosted Information Management (HIM), one of a number of eHealth Managed Services from Carestream Health designed to archive, share and distribute medical data more cost effectively and efficiently.

Abcam, a bioscience company specialising in the supply of antibodies from a web-based catalogue and Transinsight, a specialist in semantic search technologies announced a collaboration in the field of protein information quality control using bioinformatics workflows.