The Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for children has signed a deal to introduce the IMS MAXIMS Order Communications and Results Reporting solution. The contract means that staff will have an easy-to-use system through which they can order pathology and radiology tests, then review the results along with the original request.

ETIAM has entered into a global distribution agreement with Agfa HealthCare for its medical integration solution: DICOM Izer. ETIAM's solutions allow for the capture and connectivity of multimedia data to the enterprise archive and Electronic Medical Records.

IMS MAXIMS, suppliers of software to the healthcare sector in the UK and Ireland, and Total Asset Finance, a specialist lease/finance business based in Warrington Cheshire, have combined their operations under a new holding company, Daresbury Services Group (DSG) which holds 100% of both IMS MAXIMS and TAF, each of whom will continue to trade independently.

The Golden Jubilee National Hospital, which is part of the NHS National Waiting Times Centre, has purchased WinScribe and Voice Technologies' WinVoicePro software through use of the negotiated prices under the National Framework for Scotland for Digital Dictation and Speech Recognition to boost efficiency and further reduce patient waiting times.

TICBioMed is a cooperation platform for technology firms, health organisations, universities and other stakeholders involved in technological innovation applied to medicine, healthcare and biology in Murcia Region (Southeast Spain).

A new web-based electronic patient records system is being swiftly introduced at a leading cancer centre thanks to an extension of its contract with IMS MAXIMS. The agreement follows a full options appraisal in which Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology NHS Foundation Trust (CCO) measured IMS against other commercially available alternatives and against the nationally-funded programme.

Preliminary results from the BridgeHead Software Data Management Healthcheck survey suggest health IT managers are looking for resilient solutions for managing their electronic patient record (EPR) systems that can grow and evolve as their organisations' storage needs change over time.