COCIR published the results of a survey conducted among European acute care hospitals on the availability, use and investment plans for health information and communication technologies (health ICTs). This market, worth €2.5 billion in 2010, is estimated to grow moderately to €2.8 billion by 2015.

Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh (WWL) NHS Foundation Trust turned to healthcare digital signage specialist Saturn to design and deploy a screen network across three sites within an ambitious two week window.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced the launch of MyAsthma, the UK's first, free personalised health application (app) designed to help people over the age of 12 take greater control of their asthma.

A new project is underway at Leopardstown Hospital which will help nurses and therapists to keep older people independent for longer. The MAXIMS clinical PAS has already proved a major success among nurses looking after the south Dublin hospital's 170 plus residents

GS1 Solutions Partner, SATO UK, a subsidiary of the barcode and RFID technology company, SATO Holdings Corporation, has welcomed the recent publication of the Information Standards Board (ISB) for Health and Social Care Standard 1077, which will see every patient in England given a wristband with a barcode to ensure enhanced patient management.

Leading healthcare IT supplier IMS MAXIMS has announced a major new investor, laying the foundations for future growth. Thomas Anderson, who has taken full ownership of the company, and CEO Shane Tickell, have now outlined their ambitions to build IMS MAXIMS into a substantial force in international healthcare IT.

Healthcare IT suppliers have submitted their responses to the joint plan published by the Department of Health's Informatics Directorate and Intellect that aims to foster a healthy and vibrant healthcare IT market.