HIMSS has announced the formation of HIMSS Analytics Europe (HAE), a German-based company, to provide health care organizations, governments and information technology companies extensive data resources and services about the adoption and use of healthcare information technology in Europe.

AxSys Technology (AxSys), a provider of patient-centric clinical information solutions, plans to extend its reach across the UK market in response to the current shift in NHS strategies and UK Government healthcare policy initiatives.

Lincor Solutions has announced that it has won the contract to deliver bedside entertainment and education at Great Ormond St. Hospital, London.

The IT @ Networking Awards 2010 (IT @ 2010) is an open competition for fully implemented, operable healthcare IT solutions. The goal is to raise awareness of some of the world's finest and most innovative local, regional and national healthcare IT projects.

Elsevier, the leading global publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, announced today the acquisition of assets from Collexis Holdings, Inc., a leading developer of semantic technology and knowledge discovery software.

NHS North Yorkshire and York unveiled plans to purchase a further 2,000 Telehealth systems to support patients living with long term health conditions in the area - making it the largest scale Telehealth programme in the UK.

Research from a global survey by BridgeHead Software, the Healthcare Storage Virtualization (HSV) company, has revealed that medical images, scanned documents, email and advances towards the Electronic Patient Record are the likely causes for the upsurge in healthcare data that is already challenging hospitals and set to grow further in the foreseeable future.