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.

NHS 24, the telephone and online service providing health advice and information in Scotland, has signed an agreement to extend its partnership with Clinical Solutions, following the success of the current contract.

Bridgehead Software, the healthcare data management software specialist, will next week unveil interim research results from the storage virtualization portion of its Data Management Healthcheck 2010. BridgeHead spokespeople at booth 831 at World of Health IT in Barcelona will be on hand to:

Google announces an addition to Google Labs - the Public Data Explorer. The purpose of the new tool, Google says on the new lab's page, "The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate.

BridgeHead Software, a leading developer of healthcare data management software, unveiled partial preliminary results of its Data Management Healthcheck 2010 survey, reporting that only 6.5% of respondents indicate cloud storage is currently the destination media for their organization's archived data.

JAOtech will be showing its new look 2010 range of patient bedside Smart Terminals on stand 728 at the World of Health IT 2010 (WoHIT) conference and exhibition, being held in Barcelona, from 15th to 18th March 2010.