Latest Press Releases

Center Helps Hospitals, Doctors and Nurses Derive New Insight to Improve Care and Lower Cost November 3, 2009

IBM announced the launch of its Health Analytics Solution Center, part of a network of global centers addressing the growing demand for advanced analytics needed to help hospitals and medical staff improve decision-making and provide higher quality care.

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Saving babies : A new data-capture project is helping Sick Kids care for its most vulnerable patients.

IBM and Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children collaborating to reduce infant mortality with an advanced stream computing solution. The piece appears in the October issue of Backbone magazine.

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IBM Digital Medical Images Solution in Quebec

The Agence de la sante et des services sociaux de Montreal has signed a five-year, $3.6 million ($3.3 million, U.S.) deal with Artefact Informatique, the health division of IBM's LGS Group, to build a registry for digital medical images based on the Canada-wide cross-enterprise document sharing (XDS) standard.With the new tool, Quebec physicians will have electronic access to medical images stored in three secure digital imaging repositories throughout the province.

View the press releases below for more information:

HealthImaging.com, (9/29/09)

Information Week (9/30/09)

Longwoods.com (9/28/09)

Canadian Health Reference Guide (9/29/09)

Guide de Reference Sante (9/29/09)

CNBC Interview with Sam Palmisano - "IBM Thinks Smart" - Video Clip (10/02/09)

As part of the work around the Smart Cities conference that just concluded in New York, Sam Palmisano did an interview with CNBC on that theme that aired on October 2, 2009
Sam also discussed IBM's transformation and the new consolidation in the services business. Catch the video and transcript, running more than 8 minutes by accessing the link below. The segment was titled "IBM Thinks Smart."

You can watch the interview by clicking on this link: