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Philips' Third Quarter Results 2016 - HealthTech

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) has announced that the Personal Health businesses grew by 7% on a comparable basis, with growth across the portfolio, most notably double-digit growth in Health & Wellness, and the Adjusted EBITA margin improving by 130 basis points. The Diagnosis & Treatment businesses showed comparable sales growth of 6% and the Adjusted EBITA margin improved by 210 basis points, mainly driven by Image-Guided Therapy and improvements at the Cleveland site.

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Smartphones Alone Not the Smart Choice for Teen Weight Control

Teens use smartphones successfully to do almost anything: learn new skills, communicate with friends, do research and catch Pokémon. But a new study finds smartphones aren't as useful for helping teens maintain weight loss. In a 24-week behavioral study that combined traditional weight control intervention with smartphone-assisted helps, researchers found that teens lost weight initially, but couldn't maintain it when smartphones were the only tool helping them stay on track.

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Pediatricians Update Digital Media Recommendations for Kids

It's not so bad to hand your child an iPad once in a while depending on how it's used.

Playing a game together or Skyping with Grandma? That's OK.

Helping your little one calm down or trying to keep peace in the house? Not so much.

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GE Invests in GAMA-TÜRKERLER JV to Develop Two Major Healthcare PPPs in Turkey

In line with Turkey's strategic healthcare transformation program, GE Healthcare, GAMA Holding A.Ş. and Türkerler İnşaat A.Ş., today reached a definitive agreement for the development of two strategic Ministry of Health (MoH) PPPs; the İzmir & Kocaeli Integrated Healthcare Campus Projects.

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Engineers, Mathematicians and Doctors Unite to Develop New Breast Cancer-Detection Option

An international team comprising engineers, mathematicians and doctors has applied a technique used for detecting damage in underwater marine structures to identify cancerous cells in breast cancer histopathology images. Their multidisciplinary breakthrough, which has the potential to automate the screening of images and improve the detection rate, has been published in leading journal, PLOS ONE.

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New Version of Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging Platform Extends Support for Patient-Centric Care Along the Care Continuum

Agfa HealthCare announces that it is releasing a new version of its Enterprise Imaging platform. Customer-driven enhancements include academic, multi-site, radiology and additional specialty workflows for medical imaging. The Enterprise Imaging platform has already been adopted by hospitals worldwide, and has been recognized as the Number 1 Enterprise Imaging solution

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Empowering Laboratories of the Future: The Urgent Need for Clinical Context

Opinion Article by Martin Wilkinson, Director of Product Introduction, Strategy and User Adoption at InterSystems.
Laboratories across the world still work largely in isolation to clinical providers. Even today, in the digital age of sharing information, a large majority of laboratory professionals are not given the full clinical perspective on the very patients they are carrying out tests for, something that must change with urgency.

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A Portable Smartphone Laboratory Detects Cancer

Washington State University researchers have developed a low-cost, portable laboratory on a smartphone that can analyze several samples at once to catch a cancer biomarker, producing lab quality results. The research team, led by Lei Li, assistant professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, recently published the work in the journal Biosensors and Bioelectronics.

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Privacy Seal for teamplay Cloud-based Network

The cloud-based teamplay(1) platform from Siemens Healthineers has recently been awarded the German "Seal of Privacy for IT products" of the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein (ULD) as well as the European Privacy Seal (EuroPriSe).

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Nuance Announces New Version of Dragon Medical Advisor to Help Physicians Capture Clinical Documentation Easily and Accurately

Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced general availability of Dragon® Medical Advisor, its latest Computer-Assisted Physician Documentation (CAPD) solution that fits naturally into existing Dragon Medical and physician workflows, to help healthcare organizations improve the completeness and accuracy of medical records.

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