Patient safety is a mission critical business goal for First DataBank, the UK's leading provider of drug databases and active clinical decision support. To highlight its vision of a world free of medication errors, First DataBank is again sponsoring the 'best use of IT to promote patient safety' category of the E-Health Insider Awards in association with BT. 
Siemens Healthcare now offers the "Guardian Program" for a variety of its molecular imaging systems. The program is monitoring proactively and online the customer systems' performance on an ongoing real-time basis. 
Agfa HealthCare's revenue decreased 5.2 percent compared to the first quarter of 2009. Due to the economic crisis, the seasonal effects in Agfa HealthCare's markets were even more important than usual, which resulted in a very strong end of 2009 and a lower top line in the first quarter of 2010. 
Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG), and Electron, a leading Russian medical equipment manufacturer, announced a partnership for the development and production of innovative products specifically designed to serve the needs in the Russian healthcare market. 
The Ministry of Health (MOH) of the Republic of Kazakhstan has signed a contract for consultants' services with the Australian company Ocean Informatics Pty Ltd. within the framework of the World Bank-supported Kazakhstan Health Technology Transfer and Institutional Reform Project.