The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) has launched a new project called GETREAL that will investigate new ways of integrating data from real life settings, such as clinics, into drug development. This will assist healthcare decision makers when deciding how best to grant patients access to a new treatment and help pharmaceutical companies to take better decisions during drug development.
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Adverse currency effects had a strong impact on Agfa HealthCare's top line in 2013. Excluding these effects, revenue decline would be limited to 1.1 percent. In the IT segment, both Imaging IT and Enterprise IT performed well. The business group's revenue decline is attributable to the Imaging segment's traditional X-ray film business. It should be mentioned that in 2012, the traditional business was marked by a strong recovery following slow sales in 2011.
Hanover Housing Association has entered into a new long term alarm call and door entry framework agreement with Tunstall Healthcare, the leading provider of telehealth and telecare solutions, to help deliver consistency across Hanover's UK property portfolio, ensuring sustainability, value for money and innovation.
Today the European Women Innovator Award was awarded to Ana Maiques @ana_maiques. Ms Maiques said: "To be a top innovator, you have to be able to do cutting edge science - but also take it to market." This is exactly what she has done with her spin-off company Neuroelectrics @Neuroelectrics which develops revolutionary brain devices.
Using the motto "Answers for Life," Siemens Healthcare is launching a package of new developments for imaging and IT at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna, Austria. Chief among these are improved diagnostic accuracy, faster examinations and a high level of flexibility.
Qualcomm Life, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), and Tunstall Healthcare, one of the leading providers of technology enabled care services, announced its collaboration to facilitate the cost effective global deployment of Tunstall's care provisions leveraging Qualcomm Life's 2net™ Platform.
Royal Philips (NYSE:PHG, AEX: PHIA) has announced that the company is the number 3 patent applicant in the world for patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). With a total number of 1839 patent applications filed at the EPO in 2013, Philips has shown a strong growth of 59% compared to 2012, when it held the 12th position in the EPO's yearly patent applicant ranking.