A new project is underway at Leopardstown Hospital which will help nurses and therapists to keep older people independent for longer. The MAXIMS clinical PAS has already proved a major success among nurses looking after the south Dublin hospital's 170 plus residents

NHS Oldham and Oldham Council are working in partnership with leading healthcare company Tunstall, providing patients with advanced telehealth solutions that will support them in the management of their long-term conditions.

GS1 Solutions Partner, SATO UK, a subsidiary of the barcode and RFID technology company, SATO Holdings Corporation, has welcomed the recent publication of the Information Standards Board (ISB) for Health and Social Care Standard 1077, which will see every patient in England given a wristband with a barcode to ensure enhanced patient management.

Agfa HealthCare announced that its ORBIS HIS/CIS (Hospital Information System/Clinical Information System) will replace the existing, 25-year old HIS/CIS at Kliniken des Landkreises Göppingen GmbH in Germany.

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and the VU University Medical Center Amsterdam (the Netherlands) have signed an agreement to install one of Philips' highly innovative Ingenuity TF PET/MR (Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography/Magnetic Resonance) scanners at the center.

InterSystems announced that the National Integration Centre and Assurance (NICA) Technology Office has awarded InterSystems Ensemble® full release 2.0.0 compliance on all its existing Interoperability Toolkit (ITK) specification service bundles, as well as a range of additional correspondence service bundles.

GE Healthcare's MIND campaign is going online to give those affected by neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia and parkinsonian syndromes a platform to share their stories.