Agfa HealthCare announces today that it is a diamond sponsor of the World of Health IT (WoHIT) 2014 conference held by HIMSS Europe and Middle East, which will take place in Nice, France from April 2-4, 2014. The WoHIT Conference & Exhibition is the premier forum for the advancement of IT in healthcare in Europe.

Siemens' Healthcare Sector has won contracts from two Dutch university hospitals, the Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam (Erasmus MC) and University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), to supply, implement, and support the Soarian Clinicals hospital information system, including electronic patient record (EPR).

AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Intel have announced the formation of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), an open membership group focused on breaking down the barriers of technology silos to support better access to big data with improved integration of the physical and digital worlds.

Clinicians in north London are breaking down inter-professional barriers and reducing ‘did not attend’ (DNA) rates for patients with serious long term conditions. Their clinical commissioning group (CCG) is using data-sharing to integrate care across primary and secondary care, and help avoid hospital admissions. Subject to patient consent at the point of care, clinicians in Camden have a secure view of vital medical information held in GP records - using EMIS Web - in these key areas:

BridgeHead Software, the Healthcare Data Management (HDM) specialist, and Capita Healthcare Decisions, the leading provider of clinical decision software and managed services for health, announce a partnership. BridgeHead and Capita can now offer new and existing customers a healthcare platform as a service for BridgeHead's Healthcare Data Management (HDM) Solution, enabling hospitals to effectively store, protect and share their healthcare data in a secure, scalable N3 accredited UK data centre.

The first stage of a programme to deliver a detailed, local shared patient record in parts of the South West of England has gone live and subsequently been rewarded with a successful application for NHS England's Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards technology funding to support the second stage.

In advance of the seventeenth European Health Forum Gastein conference, this year themed "Electing Health - the Europe we want!" which will take place in Austria's Gastein Valley from 1 to 3 October 2014, the International Forum Gastein has announced its annual search for a winner of its European Health Award. The award of €10,000 will be sponsored by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health and FOPI, the association of research-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in Austria.