Tackling breast cancer on the road
The fully digital mammography system Mammomat Novation by Siemens Medical Solutions has now been approved for mobile screening. For the first time, breast cancer screenings are performed with digital systems built into trailer trucks. The trailers are connected to a stationary screening center where the final diagnosis is made. This type of mobile digital breast cancer screening is especially suitable for women living in rural communities or those who are more homebound than before. In Germany, women between 50 and 69 years of age are entitled to free mammography examinations every other year. 
A leading international healthcare IT provider, InterComponentWare (ICW), has held its second meeting with its U.S. Advisory Board, which represents over a dozen national key opinion leaders in the healthcare and E-Health technology industries. ICW continues its strategic commitment to bring groundbreaking solutions from the European Union and deliver innovative tools to the U.S. E-Health market that empower consumer driven healthcare. 
Recent contracts signed in France confirm Agfa's ORBIS as the leading solution in Europe for increasing efficiency in hospital organizations and quality of patient care. In a public tender Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU), the university hospital center of Toulouse, France, has chosen Agfa HealthCare to implement ORBIS, Agfa's leading clinical and administrative information system. The installation is scheduled to be concluded by 2011 and will affect some 10,000 users. 
The German cooperation project "Digitalisation of Clinical Pathways" between the Bundesknappshaft Hospital in Bottrop and TietoEnator has been awarded with the VHitG-Award for the best IT solution in the national healthcare market. The solution supports the development of patient care processes. 
Radiology department goes filmless at Rotterdam's St Franciscus Hospital