IBM (NYSE: IBM) released the latest in its series of "Healthcare 2015" vision statements, looking forward to redefine healthcare delivery models of the future and the competencies that will be required from them. In the study, entitled, Healthcare 2015 and care delivery:

Picis, the leading provider of information systems for the high-acuity areas of hospitals, has announced that the Madrid Health Ministry has chosen Picis Anesthesia Manager, PACU Manager and Critical Care Manager, part of the CareSuite® family of high-acuity solutions, to automate the patient care process in the Intensive Care Units (ICUs), operating rooms (ORs) and recovery rooms of the region’s seven new hospitals.

The Artiste Solution from Siemens has recently gone clinical in three of the most prominent cancer centers around the world. Dozens of patients have been treated to date at MAASTRO Clinic in the Netherlands, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany, and Baton Rouge General's Pennington Cancer Center in Louisiana.

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, and the Imelda Hospital in Bonheiden (Belgium) announced today that more than 15,000 nursing documentation forms have been registered electronically in ORBIS(TM), after the initial go-live in November, 2007.

Orion Health, a leading provider of clinical workflow and integration technology for the healthcare sector, announced today the opening of its office in Reading, which provides a new home for the company's services, technical support and marketing teams for the United Kingdom, Ireland and Northern Europe.

IBM, in collaboration with the Nuclear Threat Initiative's (NTI) Global Health and Security Initiative and the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance (MECIDS), has created a unique technology that standardizes the method of sharing health information and automates the analysis of infectious disease outbreaks, in order to help contain diseases and minimize their impact.

With a goal to assist carers in the United Kingdom, Intel Corporation today unveiled ConnectingForCare.co.uk, the first online community of its kind for family carers, community and district nurses, healthcare assistants, social care workers and others to share information and provide emotional support to one another, filling a void in today's healthcare system.