GP Surgeries use SMS to Advise Patients on Swine Flu
GP Surgeries in Camden are successfully sending out text messages advising patients on what to do if they think they have Swine Flu. The GP surgeries are some of the first to use text messaging as a way to help people deal with the Swine Flu pandemic. The iPLATO Patient Care Messaging service, which is being used by the surgeries to send out the Swine Flu related text messages, was originally funded by the PCT to improve efficiency and performance across a range of healthcare areas. 
Siemens Healthcare is expanding its portfolio for cancer therapy by partnering with IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc. (IMPAC) which includes an extension of its software distribution agreement to 2016 and adding the MOSAIQ software to its oncology portfolio. This partnership with IMPAC will afford Siemens customers access to IMPAC's latest innovative oncology information system (OIS) in addition to the radiation therapy systems from Siemens. 
Carestream Health launched a new web-based cardiology PACS that offers a single integrated platform for diagnosis, image review and reporting for echocardiography, cardiac catheterisation and nuclear cardiology procedures as well as electrocardiogram management. 
The business group's sales decreased by 5.8 percent to 295 million Euro. Mainly in the USA and in certain European countries, the economic crisis is causing delays in the investments of care organizations in Computed Radiography (CR) equipment and Imaging IT. The market for X-ray film evolved in line with expectations. Agfa HealthCare was able to expand its market share for hardcopy film.