Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces that the interface between its leading Hospital and Clinical Information System (HIS/CIS) ORBIS and SAP Controlling (CO), SAP Material Management (MM) and SAP Financial (FI) has been certified. The certification was carried out by an authorized team of experts from SAP after having conducted an in-depth audit on the individual functionalities.

Prosurgics' FreeHand, a robotic camera controller for keyhole surgery, will be on display at England's Royal College of Surgeons "Sci-Fi Surgery: Medical Robots" exhibition running 8 September 2009 to 23 December 2009. The exhibition explores medical robotics from sci-fi fantasy to current day reality and future developments.

Although most hospitals in Europe have some kind of information system in place, very few have a fully integrated and functional hospital information systems (HIS) solutions installed. The adoption rate of HIS solutions in 2008 in Europe varied from about 73.0 per cent in Italy and Spain to 95.0 per cent in Scandinavia.

In response to escalating demands for cost management in the NHS, medicines management specialist JAC has launched a medicines reporting module, which provides a rapid, easy to use view of medicines costs, usage and budgets for hospitals using JAC's Pharmacy Management system.

SmartLife Technology has advanced remote monitoring by integrating sophisticated, knitted sensors into any garment from shirts to socks to arm bands. Until now, traditional health monitoring was fashioned through adhesive pads/gels, wired to medical equipment and focused on torso monitoring.

A new solution from Ubisys will make it easier for NHS staff to update Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) shared by local NHS providers such as hospitals and GPs. Ubisys is integrating Anoto's Digital Pen and Paper technology with SystmOne, the most widely used primary care database within the NHS National Programme for IT.

Broomwell's award-winning cardiac telemedicine service has now handled 50,000 calls from surgeries and community hospitals for people with chest-pain symptoms in England, saving an estimated 32,000 hospital referrals for patients since the service started in 2006.