Australia's largest listed health information technology company, acquired Belgium-based health IT company UltraGenda BV for as much as $16 million (€10.7 million) as part of the company's strategy of boosting its portfolio of innovative solutions and driving additional sales through bolt-on acquisitions. 
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and the VU University Medical Center (VUmc, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) have signed an agreement to jointly research new multi-modality imaging solutions aimed at improving the early detection and treatment of diseases such as cancer and neurological and cardiovascular diseases. iSOFT Group Limited, one of the world's largest healthcare technology companies, enhanced its reputation as a global technology thought leader at its first Ideaworks for Healthcare symposium in the Netherlands, where some of the industry's leading thinkers in innovation debated the future of healthcare IT. 
Over the past decade, COCIR has become recognised as the association representing the healthcare IT industry in Europe and has gained considerable knowledge on eHealth, including on crucial aspects such as interoperability, electronic health records and telemedicine. 
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that it has signed an agreement with Montpellier CHRU for the installation of its leading Hospital/Clinical Information System (HIS/CIS) ORBIS across its seven facilities. 
By Dr. Paul Shannon FRCA MBA, Consultant Anaesthetist, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Medical Director, CSC UK Healthcare. Australia's largest listed health information technology company, announced that it is bringing its Lorenzo strategic healthcare solution to Apple's iPhone for medical professionals to access scans, x-rays and patients records via a prototype application due for release later this year.