Anoto, the leader in digital writing technology, today announced that the Welsh Ambulance Service Trust (WAST) has awarded a contract to roll-out 1,700 digital pens to ambulance crews across Wales. The contract that is led by Vodafone UK, is for an initial three year term and follows a highly successful pilot of Anoto's digital writing technology with paramedics at the Swansea Ambulance station in 2013.

Ted Taccardi has been appointed Vice President, Global Customer Care at Carestream effective immediately. In this role, he will lead the company's worldwide Customer Care organisation and is a member of Carestream's senior executive leadership team.

By Wayne Parslow, General Manager EMEA at MedeAnalytics.
People have been talking public health for the last 200 years. But the publication of Simon Stevens’ Five Year Forward View now heralds a five year change phase for the NHS, one which could see health and social care fundamentally shift to managing the health of populations in a very different way.

NHS organisations can now save time and money in the purchasing process of a range of implementation and support services for the UK's only open source electronic patient record (EPR) and patient administration system (PAS) software as IMS MAXIMS announced its place on two major procurement frameworks.

HIMSS Analytics Europe, subsidiary of HIMSS Europe, has awarded Radboud university medical center with the Stage 7 Award, making it the first HIMSS Stage 7 hospital in the Netherlands and the third in Europe.

Today, at the European Congress of Radiation (ECR) 2015, COCIR participated in the EuroSafe Call for Action. A European Society of Radiology (ESR) initiative, 'EuroSafe 2 - EuroSafe imaging call for action' was the second EuroSafe session at ECR 2015. This campaign, now supported by a concrete 12-point action plan, aims to protect patient and healthcare worker safety and the session was an opportunity to bring multiple stakeholders together.

At this year's European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna, Austria, Siemens Healthcare displays a range of new products and solutions for radiology. They are designed to contribute to an increased quality of care while reducing costs in healthcare systems worldwide.