As previously reported, CSC (NYSE: CSC) and the U.K. National Health Service (NHS) have been in discussions on the way forward to redefining the contractual relationship between CSC and the NHS. As a result of these discussions, CSC and the NHS entered into a non-binding letter of intent on March 2, 2012.`

University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), Utrecht University, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and Philips today announced their intention to share their knowledge, expertise and capacity for innovation to research and develop new methods for disease diagnosis and treatment based on medical imaging.

Spire Healthcare, a leading provider of private healthcare in the UK, has implemented Carestream’s Vue Motion zero-footprint viewer to enable its clinicians to view patient images on mobile devices such as iPads and other android devices.

Maxima Medical Center (Veldhoven, The Netherlands) and Royal Philips Electronics announced that a major milestone has been reached in the realization of a unique new mother and child care concept. Premature babies currently receiving care at the medical center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) will be moved to new accommodation in the Woman-Mother-Child center in the Maxima Medical Center in Veldhoven.

A pharmacy and GP surgery in a deprived part of East London have successfully trialled a new integrated repeat medications service from two leading healthcare IT providers. Developers at Rx Systems and EMIS created new links between Rx Systems’ ProScript® and EMIS GP software to enable the two systems to talk to each other about patients’ repeat medication and exchange information directly.

Today, the health sector faces new challenges, from the ageing of the population to the increase in chronic illnesses, the growing shortage of healthcare staff and the reorganization of health systems around the world. To help traditional health systems to evolve, Orange has been working for the past 10 years to pave the way for new solutions in the e-health field, thanks to the strong level of innovation within its teams.

CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced that it has achieved a Gold ranking in Business in the Community’s (BITC) 2012 Corporate Responsibility Index (CRI), the UK’s leading voluntary benchmark of corporate responsibility.

One of the first medical imaging data archiving and sharing projects in France using CARESTREAM Vue Cloud PACS and Vue Cloud Archive is now operational. Data is hosted at the Roanne NumeriParc secure data centre in the Loire Region (south-east of France), and built around the Axione high-speed telecommunications network.