Opinion Article by Andrew Meiner, Managing Director, Stalis.
Award-winning electronic patient record (EPR) provider IMS MAXIMS has announced the availability of its cloud services on the latest iteration of the UK Government's G Cloud Framework. NHS organisations looking for a cost-effective and efficient way to purchase cloud-based solutions that enable their paperless 2020 ambitions, can use G Cloud 9 to access a range of IMS MAXIMS professional implementation services. 
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust (West Herts) located in the South East of the UK and Carestream have signed and exchanged contracts to replace the Trust's existing PACS with a CARESTREAM Vue PACS and Vue VNA. The new five-year contract will be provided as a Managed Service, including software, services, workstation and server hardware. 
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) and Navican, an Intermountain Healthcare company, today signed an agreement to deploy a precision health informatics solution that will allow hospitals and health systems worldwide to access the sophisticated services of Intermountain's successful precision medicine program in a "turn-key" manner. 
Director of digital transformation at NHS Digital, Beverley Bryant, has been appointed chief operating officer of the System C & Graphnet Care Alliance. She will be starting her new job on 1 August 2017. Beverley will be working closely with Ian Denley and Markus Bolton across many areas of the System C and Graphnet businesses including strategy, delivery and business development. 
iMDsoft announced that the sixth site at Nexuz Health, a consortium looking to raise the quality of patient care by facilitating clear, transparent partnerships between hospitals, has gone live with the MetaVision clinical information system. AZ Sint-Jan Brugge-Oostende now has electronic patient records in over 50 ICU beds, joining UZ Leuven, AZ Groeninge Kortrijk, OLV Ziekenhuis Aalst, AZ Sint-Lucas and AZ Turnhout in using MetaVision. 
Merck, a leading science and technology company, today announced the start of an experiment entitled "Anyone can become more curious". Driven by the company’s curiosity initiative, which measured and described curiosity in detail in various countries such as the United States, China and Germany - the question now is if and how one can increase curiosity so as to ultimately lead to more or better science-driven behavior.