With the legal action out of the way, CSC has closed its acquisition of Australia-based healthcare IT developer iSOFT.

The Federal Court has approved the schemes of arrangement that will allow CSC to acquire all of iSOFT's issued shares.

The European Commission (EU) has given an unconditional clearance to the listed US global IT services provider, CSC, to go ahead with the acquisition of the troubled e-healthcare software giant, iSOFT.

Technology provider CSC has won a $6.3 million contract to roll out a patient administration system for the Western Australia Department of Health.

The New South Wales Supreme Court has thrown out a claim by former iSOFT executive Gary Cohen over a portion of the company which appears to be owned by investment house Oceania Capital Partners.

One of the key investors in troubled e-health software giant iSOFT has claimed that the company's former executive chairman Gary Cohen was supportive of a buyout of the company by IT services giant CSC, despite the fact that Cohen last week filed legal proceedings in what appeared to be an attempt to block part of the acquisition.

US-headquartered IT services giant CSC was today unable to provide any substantive detail about how its planned acquisition of listed Australian e-health player iSOFT would affect customers or staff, noting the buyout process had only just begun.

US-headquartered IT services giant CSC has confirmed it will buy troubled Australian e-health player iSOFT, in a move that will finally give CSC full control over the company it has long partnered with in the UK Government’s makeover of its national health technology systems, and will bring long-awaited stability to iSOFT's operations.

Software and services giant CSC announced overnight that it had signed an agreement to buy troubled healthcare solutions provider (and a key supplier to CSC) iSoft for $0.17 a share. The cash offer is subject to shareholder and regulatory approval.

Multiple media outlets are speculating that IT services giant CSC might buy troubled Australian e-health company iSOFT, in a move that will finally give CSC full control over the company it has long partnered with in the UK Government's makeover of its national health technology systems.