Advanced Health & Care (Advanced), in partnership with Medway Community Healthcare is a finalist in the 'Nursing in the Community' category of the Nursing Times Awards 2012. The winner will be announced during an awards ceremony at London's Hilton Hotel, Park Lane on 31 October 2012.

By Neil Darvill, director of health informatics at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Setting the NHS free from paper-based systems is essential for improving healthcare. At St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals that goal is in sight. A huge digitisation project has already allowed us to consign paper hospital medical records to the bin.

Advanced Health & Care (Advanced), in partnership with Medway Community Healthcare, has been named a finalist in the 'Best use of mobile technology' category of the E-Health Insider (EHI) Awards 2012. This announcement follows two rounds of judging, with only the top six from the first round making it through to the final and deciding round.

The Nation of Denmark, recognized as a global leader in healthcare technologies, today announced that its new national Action Plan for Telemedicine will be built on Design Guidelines created by Continua Health Alliance to ensure the seamless and secure collection, communication and storage of personal health data from patients' homes to healthcare providers across the country.

Anoto, the creator of digital pen and paper technology, announced the results of a survey conducted across the United States and the United Kingdom focused on the state of scanning in business today.

AxSys Technology (AxSys), the UK based provider of the Excelicare software platform for clinical care, has been positioned as a Leader in IDC’s MarketScape Vendor Assessment report, entitled "U.S. Health Information Exchange Platform Solutions 2012 Vendor Assessment, doc #HI235816", which was published in July 2012.

BridgeHead Software has joined forces with the European Centre of Expertise for the Health Care Industry EEIG to provide a unique data and storage management offering to European healthcare organisations known as the Shared Medical Archiving Solution (SMAS).