The Centre Hospitalier de Valenciennes won an award for the digitisation of its care services with the Cerner Millennium® solution portfolio. The Centre Hospitalier de Valenciennes is the second French organisation to be recognised by HIMSS Analytics Europe for the quality of its information system, six months after the Centre Hospitalier de Belfort-Montbéliard, the first French site to receive the certification.

Imprivata has announced that it is the latest supplier to join the One Health Alliance (OHA), a group of healthcare technology providers working collaboratively to provide best of breed systems to the NHS. The group, which meets on a quarterly basis, works together to exchange experiences and ideas as well as identifying opportunities and tenders on which to work together to strengthen the offerings of individual members to better meet the NHS' requirements.

Anoto Group, the creator of Digital Pen and Paper technology, announced that its flexible and easy-to-use mobile solutions are being adopted by a wide range of healthcare organisations throughout the globe to provide instant access to information.

NHS acute trusts in England will be spending around £800m a year on IT in four years time, as they respond to the end of the National Programme for IT in the NHS and other pressures, new research shows. The 'Market by numbers' report from EHI Intelligence launched at EHI Live 2012, reveals that total IT spend in this sector will increase by 4.2% in 2012 - 2013, despite overall trust budgets remaining flat.

Figures published in today's New England Journal of Medicine by a team of economists and health experts from the Universities of Manchester, Nottingham, Birmingham and Cambridge, show significant drops in mortality after using Clarity Informatics' Quality Improvement Service (QIS) in the North West of England.

EHealth Insider (EHI) has launched a new channel focused on digital imaging systems at EHI Live 2012. The new channel, EHI Imaging Informatics, will strengthen EHI's existing coverage of this emerging discipline, which requires close collaboration between knowledgeable clinicians, specialist informaticians and industry experts.

The first survey of serving NHS chief clinical information officers (CCIOs) highlights the deep clinical experience that is being brought to the new role. It also shows CCIOs are spending 50% more time on the role than their organisations have budgeted for, as they make clinical engagement and information strategy their top priorities. This clearly highlights the growing importance of the CCIO.